RESEARCH
I am an applied micro theorist. My current research is primarily concerned with coalition formation, group contest, public economics, and political economy.
Selected Publications
Household Formation and Markets, (with Hans Gersbach and Hans Haller), Economic Theory 59, 461-507 (2015).
Entrepreneurial Land Developers: Joint Production, Local Externalities and Mixed Housing Developments, Journal of Urban Economics, 75, 68-79 (2013).
Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker, with Chiu-Yu Ko, Games and Economic Behavior, 75, 217-232 (2012).
Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy, with Taiji Furusawa, Theoretical Economics, 6, 219-256 (2011).
Free Trade Networks, (with Taiji Furusawa), Journal of International Economics 72, 310-335, (2007)
Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems, with M. Utku Ünver, Journal of Economic Theory, 129, 57-80 (2006).
Concentration of Competing Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 488-512 (2005).
Coalition Formation as a Dynamic Process, with Debraj Ray, Journal of Economic Theory, 110, 1-41 (2003).
Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game, Social Choice and Welfare 18, 135-153, (with Suryapratim Banerjee and Tayfun Sönmez), (2001).
Formation of Hub Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and Population Agglomeration, Journal of Urban Economics, 48, 1-28, (2000).
Recent Publications
The Best at the Top? Candidate Ranking Strategies Under Closed List Proportional Representation, (with Benoit Crutzen and Nicolas Sahuguet), forthcoming in Political Science Research and Methods.
Prize allocation Rules in Generalized Contests, (with Katsuya Kobayashi and Kaoru Ueda), forthcoming in Economic Theory.
Allocation Rules of Indivisible Prizes in Team Contests, (with Benoit Crutzen and Nicolas Sahuguet), forthcoming in Economic Theory.
Dynamic Team Contests with Complementary Efforts, (with Maria Arbatskaya), forthcoming in Review of Economic Design (special issue on Contests edited by Dan Kovenock).
Free Trade Agreements with Environmental Standards, (with Minoru Nakada and Akihisa Shibata), Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 26, 1-30 (2024).
Equilibria in Bottleneck Games, (with Ryo Kawasaki and Junki Yukawa), International Journal of Game Theory 52, 649-685.
Stability in Matching with Externalities: Pairs Competition and Oligopoly among Joint Ventures, (with Kenzo Imamura and Chen-Yu Pan), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205, 270-286 (2023).
Assortative Matching with Externalities and Farsighted Players, (with Kenzo Imamura), Dynamic Games and Applications 13 (special issue on Group Formation and Farsightedness edited by Francis Bloch, Ana Mauleon, and Vincent Vannetelboch), 497-509 (2023).
Equilibrium Player Choices in Team Contests with Multiple Pairwise Battles, (with Chen-Yu Pan and Dimitar Simeonov), Games and Economic Behavior 132, 274-287 (2022).
Endogenous Alliances in Survival Contests, (with Chen-Yu Pan), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 189, 337-358 (2021).
Sharing Rules in Group Contests in the Presence of Effort Complementarity, (with Katsuya Kobayashi), Social Choice and Welfare 56, pages 205–221 (2021).
Silent Promotion of Agendas: Campaign Contributions and Ideological Polarization, (with Chen-Yu Pan), Public Choice 182, 93-117 (2020). (This almost-final version file has all appendices as well as the main text.)
International Trade and Income Inequality, (with Taiji Furusawa and Duong Tran Lam Anh), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122, 993-1026 (2020).
Sequential Formation of Alliances in Survival Contests, (with Chen-Yu Pan), International Journal of Economic Theory 16, 95-105 (2020) (Festschrift in Honor of Marcus Berliant). (with online appendix)
Partisan and Bipartisan Gerrymandering, (with Chen-Yu Pan), Journal of Public Economic Theory 22, 1183-1212 (2020).
Working Papers
Competing Teams in Large Markets Free Entry Equilibrium with (Sub-)Optimal Contracts, (with Chen-Yu Pan and Dimitar Simeonov).
Nonemptiness of the f-Core Without Comprehensiveness, (with Dimitar Simeonov).
Formation of Teams in Contests: Trade-offs Between Inter- and Intra-Team Inequalities, (with Chen-Yu Pan and Dimitar Simeonov).
Campaign Contributions for Free Trade: Salient and Non-salient Agendas, (with Chen-Yu Pan). Computational Codes.zip
Incentivizing Team Production by Indivisible Prizes: Electoral Competition under Proportional Representation, (with Benoit Crutzen, Sabine Flamand, and Nicolas Sahuguet), (draft). slides