Employment
Postdoctoral Associate, Cowles Foundation, Yale University (2008-2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University (2009-present)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, June 2008
B.A. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Tokyo, March 2003
Research Interests
Primary Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Market Design
Secondary Field: Political Economics
Selected Publications
Substitutes and Stability for Matching with Contracts (2007), with John William Hatfield, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Theory
Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms (2008), with Yeon-Koo Che, forthcoming, Econometrica.
Axioms for Deferred Acceptance (2007), with Mihai Manea, forthcoming, Econometrica
Incentives and Stability in Large Two-Sided Matching Markets (2009), with Parag A. Pathak, American Economic Review 99, pp 608–27.
Incentives in the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism (2007), with Mihai Manea, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Theory
Risk-Dominance and Perfect Foresight Dynamics in N-Player Games (2006), Journal of Economic Theory 128, pp 255-273.
Publications (Continued)
Matching, Resource Allocation, Auction and Market Design
Impossibility of Stable and Nonbossy Matching Mechanisms (2009), forthcoming, Economics Letters.
Group Incentive Compatibility for Matching with Contracts (2007), with John William Hatfield, forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.
Random Assignment of Multiple Indivisible Objects (2007), forthcoming, Mathematical Social Sciences.
Matching with Contracts: Comment (2008), with John William Hatfield, American Economic Review 98, pp 1189- 1194.
Games of School Choice under the Boston Mechanism with General Priority Structures (2007), Social Choice and Welfare 31, pp 357-365.
The Law of Aggregate Demand and Welfare in the Two-Sided Matching Market (2007), Economics Letters 99, pp 581-584.
When can Manipulations be Avoided in Two-Sided Matching Markets? Maximal Domain Results (2007), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (contribution), Article 32.
Matching and Price Competition: Comment (2007), American Economic Review 97, pp 1027-1031.
Random Paths to Pairwise Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems: A Study on Market Equilibration (2006), with M. Utku Ünver, International Journal of Game Theory 36, pp 473-488 (the Special Issue in Honor of David Gale).
Mixed Strategies in Games of Capacity Manipulation in Hospital-Intern Markets (2006), Social Choice and Welfare 27, pp 25-28.
Learning and Evolutionary Game Theory
p-Dominance and Perfect Foresight Dynamics (2007), with Satoru Takahashi, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
Stability and Instability of the Unbeatable Strategy in Dynamic Processes (2006), International Journal of Economic Theory 2, pp 41-54. (2006 IJET Lionel W. McKenzie Prize)
Anti-Coordination Games and Dynamic Stability (2007), joint with Satoru Takahashi, International Game Theory Review 9, pp 667-688.
Political Economics
Bureaucrats or Politicians?: Comment (2008), American Economic Review 98, pp 561-562.
A Theory of Hung Juries and Informative Voting (2007), with Yuki Takagi, forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.
Non-Refereed Publications
Matching Market Design (a survey, in Japanese), Keizai Seminar (Economics Seminar), with Yosuke Yasuda, 2009.
Game Theory and Market Design, 1st part, 2nd part (newspaper articles, in Japanese), The Nikkei, 2009.
Frontiers of the School Choice Problem (a survey, in Japanese), with Yosuke Yasuda, in Designing School Choice Systems, Yosuke Yasuda (editor), forthcoming, NTT Press; Tokyo.
Working papers
Matching, Resource Allocation, Auction and Market Design
Finding All Stable Matchings with Couples (2007), revise and resubmit, Games and Economic Behavior.
Robust Stability in Matching Markets (2009)
Implementing Random Assignments: A Generalization of the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem (2009), with Eric Budish, Yeon-Koo Che, and Paul Milgrom
The `Boston' School Choice Mechanism (2010), with M. Utku Ünver
Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets (2010), with Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
Political Economics
Voter Preferences, Polarization, and Electoral Policies (2009), with Yuichiro Kamada
Awards and Honors
Fellow, VCASI, 2008-
American Economic Review Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2007-2008
International Journal of Economic Theory Lionel W. McKenzie Prize, February 2007
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute of Humane Studies, December 2006
Graduate Instruction Committee Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University, December 2004
Summer Research Grant, Harvard University, July 2004
Spring Economics Prize, Harvard University, May 2006, May 2004
Presidential Scholarship, Harvard University, September 2003 to June 2008
Ouchi Hyoe Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis, University of Tokyo, March 2003
Thesis Title: ``A Generalized Approach to Equilibrium Selection under Perfect Foresight Dynamics"
Presidential Award, University of Tokyo, March 2003
Editorial Services
Associate Editor, Economic Theory (2009 - present)
Organization of Academic Conferences
SAET conference, Singapore
Referee for Academic Journals
American Economic Review (Excellence in Refereeing Award, 2007-2008),
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
American Political Science Review,
Econometrica,
Economic Theory,
Games and Economic Behavior,
International Journal of Game Theory,
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Economic Theory,
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
Journal of Mathematical Economics,
NSF,
Operations Research,
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
Rand Journal of Economics,
Review of Economic Design,
Review of Economic Studies,
Social Choice and Welfare,
Theoretical Economics,
Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE2008).
Professional Talks (incl. scheduled)
Conferences
2010
SAET conference (August 2010)
Theory of Market Design, Contracts and Organization, Yonsei University (August 2010)
Matching Conference in Celebration of the 20th anniversary of Roth and Sotomayor (1990), Duke (May 2010)
Annual Meeting of Japanese Economic Association, Chiba University, Japan (June 2010)
2009
Summer Microeconomics Seminars, University of Hong Kong (July 2009)
2008
Midwest Theory Conference, Ohio State (September 2008)
Games 2008, Northwestern (July 2008)
SITE Workshop on Market Design, Stanford (June 2008)
North American Summer Meetings of The Econometric Society, Carnegie Mellon University (June 2008)
2007
Workshop on Matching: Theory, Applications, and Experiments, Barcelona (June 2007)
2006
YNU Conference on Economic Theory, Yokohama (December 2006)
2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh (2 presentations) (November 2006)
The 17th International Conference on Game Theory, SUNY Stony Brook (July 2006)
The 2006 North American Summer Meetings of The Econometric Society, University of Minnesota (June 2006)
2005
16th Jerusalem Summer School in Economic Theory "Matching, Auctions, and Market Design," Hebrew University (2 presentations) (July 2005)
Intensive course in Evolutionary Economic Dynamics, University of Trento (June 2005)
2004
The Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille (July 2004)
The 10th Decentralization Conference in Japan, Keio University (June 2004)
2003
Italian Meeting for Game Theory and Applications 2003, University of Urbino (July 2003)
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Economic Association, Oita University (June 2003)
Seminars
2010
Paris School of Economics
Tohoku University
University of Tokyo
UCLA
UC Davis
UC Berkeley
Columbia University
UCSD
2009
Waseda University
Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Tokyo
Penn State
Rochester
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Edinburgh
University of Michigan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Western Ontario
2008
Keio University (December 2008)
Waseda University (December 2008)
VCASI (December 2008)
Kobe University (December 2008)
University of Tokyo
University of Queensland (November 2008)
University of Melbourne (November 2008)
Chinese University of Hong Kong (November 2008)
Boston College (October 2008)
Rice University (October 2008)
University of Toronto (September 2008)
Yale University (September 2008)
Harvard Business School (May 2008)
MIT (March 2008)
University of Washington St. Louis (February 2008)
Northwestern Kellogg (January 2008)
Columbia University (January 2008)
Stanford University (January 2008)
2007
Harvard Business School (October 2007)
Microsoft Research (April 2007)
2006
University of Tokyo
2005
KIER, Kyoto University (December 2005)
Hitotsubashi University (December 2005)
ISER, Osaka University (December 2005)
2004
University of Tokyo (June 2004)
Hitotsubashi University
Tokyo Institute of Technology (June 2004)
2003
University of Tokyo
Nagoya City University (May 2003)
Student Seminars
Harvard University (February 2008, October 2007, February 2007, November 2006, February 2006, April 2005, March 2005, November 2004, August 2004)
University of Tokyo (May 2005, January 2003)
ISER, Osaka University (December 2005)
University of Vienna (March 2003)
Invited Lectures
2009
Princeton University
Yonsei University
University of Tokyo