Kentaro Tomoeda

I am a Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney, UTS Business School, Economics Discipline Group. I received my PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2016. My research is in the fields of microeconomic theory, market design, and economics of education. In particular, my research primarily focuses on the following two topics: (1) equity and access to education markets and (2) the long-term consequences of market mechanisms.

I am a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) and a member of the Australian Education Markets Network.

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Email: Kentaro.Tomoeda@uts.edu.au

Publications (Peer-reviewed)

• "Optimal Top-n Policy" with Isa Hafalir and Siqi Pan, 2025, Mathematical Social Sciences, 133: 34-48. [SSRN]

• "Weak Stability against Robust Deviations and the Bargaining Set in the Roommate Problem" with Daisuke Hirata and Yusuke Kasuya, 2023, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 105: 102818. [SSRN]

• "Stability against Robust Deviations in the Roommate Problem" with Daisuke Hirata and Yusuke Kasuya, 2021, Games and Economic Behavior, 130: 474-498. [SSRN]

• "Efficient Investments in the Implementation Problem", 2019, Journal of Economic Theory, 182: 247-278. [Working Paper]

• "Finding a Stable Matching under Type-specific Minimum Quotas", 2018, Journal of Economic Theory, 176: 81-117. [Working Paper]

• "First-price Auction Implements Efficient Investments", 2017, Economics Letters, 159: 198-200. [Working Paper]

Working papers

• "Zoned Out: The Trade-off between School Choice and Desegregation" with Georgy Artemov

• "Reserves with Relative Admission Thresholds" with Bowei Shi

• "College Applications under Demand Uncertainty" with Yan Song and Xiaoyu Xia (This paper supersedes our previously circulated draft "Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications".)

• "Tie-breaking or Not: A Choice Function Approach" with Kenzo Imamura

• "Measuring Manipulability of Matching Mechanisms" with Kenzo Imamura

Other publications

• "Book Review: Microeconomics for Managers: Principles and Applications by Richard B. McKenzie, D. Eric Schansberg and Dwight R. Lee (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)", 2024, Economic Record

• "Gakko-sentaku-sei no Design: Game Riron Approach (Design of School Choice Mechanisms: Game Theory Approach)" with Toshiji Kawagoe, Fuhito Kojima, Yusuke Narita, Takahiro Sato, Hirokazu Takizawa and Yosuke Yasuda, 2010, NTT Publishing (In Japanese)

Teaching

• Principles of Microeconomics (UTS Business School, undergraduate)

• Intermediate Microeconomics (UTS Business School, undergraduate)

• Game Theory (UTS Business School, PhD)