CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail: ken.t.onishi [at] gmail.com
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Business School Department of DOT, September 2025 -
Past POSITION
Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University, July 2014 - June 2018
Visiting Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University, July 2018 - August 2018
Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board, September 2018 - December 2021
Principal Economist, Federal Reserve Board, December 2021 - June 2022
Senior Economist, Amazon Japan, July 2022 - August 2025
Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University, October 2022 - August 2025
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 2014
M.A.: Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, 2010
B.A. : Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
FIELDS
Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics
PAPERS
“Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program,” Joint with Tim Dore, Tetsuji Okazaki and Naoki Wakamori, Small Business Economics, 2025 (formally circulated as “Finance, Firm Growth, and Financial Constraints”)
“Concentration and Geographic Proximity in Antitrust Policy: Evidence from Bank Mergers,” Joint with D Benson, S Blattner, S Grundl, YS Kim, AEJ: Micro, 2024
"Dissolution Risk and Legislative Effort of Politicians," with Yumi Koh and Yuri Matsumura, Electoral Studies, 2022
“Signaling in Online Credit Markets,” with Kei Kawai and Kosuke Uetake, Journal of Political Economy, 2022
“Excess Capacity and Effectiveness of Policy Interventions: Evidence from the Cement Industry,” with Tetsuji Okazaki and Naoki Wakamori, International Economic Review, 2022
“Competition-Driven Physician Induced Demand,” with Kei Ikegami and Naoki Wakamori, Journal of Health Economics, 2021
WORKING PAPERS
“The Decline of Labor Share and New Technology Diffusion: Implications for Markups and Monopsony Power,” with Shoki Kusaka, Tetsuji Okazaki, Naoki Wakamori, revision requested from Review of Economic Studies
“Endogenous Joint Venture Formation in Procurement Auctions,” with Kei Ikegami, Naoki Wakamori
“Compatible Mergers: Assets, Service Areas and Market Power,” Joint with Tetsuji Okazaki and Naoki Wakamori
“Quantity Discounts and Capital Misallocation in Aircraft and Airline Industries”
"The Welfare Consequences of Free Entry in Vertical Relationships: The Case of the MRI Market," Joint with Naoki Wakamori, Chiyo Hashimoto and Shun-ichiro Bessho
WORK IN PROGRESS
"Financial Constraints and Investment in New Technology: The case of Japanese Electricity Industry in Early 1900's", joint with Tetsuji Okazaki
SEMINARS/CONFERENCES
2011: Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society.
2013: North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, SED Annual Meeting.
2014: International Industrial Organization Conference, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics, Singapore Management University, University of Queensland, University of Mannheim, Kyoto University, Daito Bunka University
2015: Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics, Kwansei Gauin University
2016: International Industrial Organization Conference, Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management, CRESSE 2016 (Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation), Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics, National University of Singapore, University of Technology Sydney, Chuo University, University of Tokyo
2017: Summer Workshop on Economic Theory, National University of Singapore, The University of Technology Sydney, Chuo University, The University of Tokyo
2018: International Industrial Organization Conference, Cannon Institute for Global Study Workshop, Boston College, Federal Reserve Board, Kyoto University
2019: 2019 IO Conference at the Univerity of Tokyo, International Industrial Organization Conference, 2019 DC IO Conference, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory 2019, 2019 The Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Hitotsubashi University, Queen’s University Smith School of Business, Waseda University, Bank of Japan
2020: The University of Toyo, Japan Fair Trade Commision
2021: APIOC
2022:Midwest Economics Association Conference, AWALES, System Applied Microeconomics Conference, Asian Meeting of Econometric Society, Kyoto U, Waseda U
2023: Otaru University of Commerce
RESEARCH GRANTS
2017: SMU Research Grant, The AcRF Tier 1, “The Effect of Endogenous Elections on Legislative Efforts of Politicians”