Last updated: September  3, 2025.

[Affiliation]

• • Position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Momoyama Gakuin University

  • Location: 1-1 Manabino, Izumi, Osaka 594-1198, Japan (St. Andrew Hall, 1126)

  • E-mail: ka-nishi [at] andrew.ac.jp (please replace [at] by @)

  • Researcher Databases: ORCID, Publons, Google Scholar, SSRN, KAKEN, researchmap, J-GLOBAL

[Memberships]

• • Association for Public Economic Theory

  • Economic Science Association

  • Society for Economic Design

• Japanese Economic Association

[Fields]

• Mechanism Design Theory

• Social Choice Theory

• Experimental Economics

[Degrees]

• • Ph.D. in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, 2013.

Thesis: Toward Practical Mechanism Design: Essays on Secure Implementation.

Committee: T. Saijo (Chair), S. Serizawa, Y. Nishimura

• M.A. in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, 2008.

Thesis: Secure Implementation in Public Good Economies.

Committee: T. Saijo (Chair), M. Aoyagi, S. Serizawa

• B.A. in Economics, Faculty of Economics, Wakayama University, 2006.

Adviser: Y. Maehara

[Computer Skills]

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Tex (WinShell, EasyTeX), Maxima, R, z-Tree, HK Coder, Clock Launcher

[Grants]

• • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (2019-2024) “Design of Practical Voting Rules based on Bounded Rationality,” Principal Investigator.

• • Momoyama Gakuin University

Research Grant for Collaborative Research Projects of the Research Institute (2022-2024) “Formation of Research and Educational Infrastructure for Experimental Economics,” Principal Investigator.

Research Grant for Designated Research Projects of the Research Institute (2019-2020) “A Study on Bounded Rationality in Game Theory,” Principal Investigator.

Research Grant for Collaborative Research Projects of the Research Institute (2019-2021) “Adaptation Possibility of Text Mining in the Human and Social Science,” Co-Investigator (-2020).

Research Grant for Collaborative Research Projects of the Research Institute (2018-2020) “Analytical Studies of Essential Factors Underpinning Learning for University Students,” Co-Investigator (2019-).

Research Grant for Designated Research Projects of the Research Institute (2017) “Preliminary Study on New Developments in Mechanism Design Theory based on the Interdependence among Decision-Makings,” Principal Investigator.

Research Grant for Collaborative Research Projects of the Research Institute (2016-2018) “Interdisciplinary Study on Strategic Culture and Political Thought,” Co-Investigator.

Research Grant for Designated Research Projects of the Research Institute (2016) “Secure Implementability of Uniform Mechanism,” Principal Investigator.

• Kansai University

Publicly Offered Research Grant at the Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies (2023-2024) “Experimental Comparison of Generational Values of Work and its Application: Aiming to Formulate Method for Employee Education and Evaluation,” Co-Investigator.

Research Grant for Openly Recruited Researchers at the Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies (2018) “Robustness of Voting Rules to the Decisions by Boundedly Rational Agents,” Principal Investigator.

Research Grant for Openly Recruited Researchers at the Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies (2015-2017) “Implementation Theory and Rationality: Secure Implementation Reconsidered,” Principal Investigator.

Fund for Supporting Young Scholars (2014) “Robustness of Secure Implementation,” Principal Investigator.

[Refereeing]

• Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review