Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, April 2022 - Present
Chief Researcher, Competition Policy Research Center, Japan Fair Trade Commission, April 2022 - Present
Visiting Researcher, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, April 2023 - Present
Editorial Board, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, November 2018 - Present
Associate Editor, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, April 2022 - Present
Fellow, Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), May 2022 - Present
Project Advisor, UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc., October 2020 - Present
Past Employment:
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, July 2015 - March 2022
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, July 2012 - June 2015
Senior Analyst, Currency Department, Bank of Canada, July 2011 - July 2012 (My info can be found here)
Other Positions (in reverse chronological order):
Project Member (PI: Prof. Uesugi), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, November 2021 - Present
Project Member (PI: Prof. Okazaki), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, November 2021 - Present
Associate Research Fellow, Financial Services Agency, August 2020 - July 2021
Technical Advisor, DeNA, October 2019 - March 2020
Special Research Fellow, Financial Services Agency, July 2019 - July 2020
Economist Consultant, Amazon Japan G.K., December 2018 - March 2021
Project Member (PI: Prof. Okazaki), Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, October 2018 - September 2020
Project Member, International Institute for Advanced Studies, April 2018 - March 2021
Junior Member, Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), September 2012 - June 2015 (My info)
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, May 2011
M.A. in Economics, University of Tokyo, March 2006
B.A. in Economics, Keio University, Magna Cum Laude, March 2004
Research fields:
Primary field: (Empirical) Industrial Organization
Secondary fields: Financial Economics, Health Economics, and Energy/Environmental Economics
Publications (Only published/accepted papers are listed here. Working papers can be found in Research section):
Why Do Shoppers Use Cash? Evidence from Shopping Diary Data (with Angelika Welte)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2017, pp. 115-169.Revisiting Jevons's Paradox of Energy Rebound: Policy Implications and Empirical Evidence in Consumer-Oriented Financial Incentives from the Japanese Automobile Market, 2006–2016 (with Sunbin Yoo, Kyung Woong Koh, and Yoshikuni Yoshida)
Energy Policy, Volume 133, October 2019, 110923.Preference or Technology? Evidence from the Automobile Industry (with Sunbin Yoo and Yoshikuni Yoshida)
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 96, July 2021, 102846.Competition-Driven Physician-Induced Demand (with Kei Ikegami and Ken Onishi)
Journal of Health Economics, Volume 79, September 2021, 102488.Excess Capacity and Effectiveness of Policy Interventions: Evidence from the Cement Industry (with Tetsuji Okazaki and Ken Onishi)
International Economic Review, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2022, TBA.
Book Chapter
Hiroyuki Nakata, Yasuyuki Sawada, and Naoki Wakamori (2020), "Robustness of Production Networks Against Economic Disasters: Thailand Case," pp. 139-161, in V. Anbumozhi, F. Kimura, and S. Thangavelu S. (Eds.), Supply Chain Resilience, Springer: Singapore.
Seminar Presentations:
2024
2024/03/19: Nihon University
2024/01/24: Kyushu University
2023
2023/10/05: Osaka University
2023/07/20: Tohoku University
2023/07/07: Japan Fair Trade Commission
2023/01/26: Development Bank of Japan
2022
2022/7/20: Hitotsubashi University
2021
2021/10/21: Monash University
2021/10/1: Japan Fair Trade Commission
2020
2020/11/27: Keio University
2020/10/29: Waseda University (School of Political Science and Economics)
2020/09/11: Financial Services Agency
2020/08/07: RIETI
2020/05/15: Osaka University
2019
2019/10/19: Contract Theory Workshop
2019/09/27: Kwansei Gakuin University
2019/06/29: Policy Modeling Workshop
2019/03/28: Tohoku University
2019/01/18: RIETI
2019/01/16: Osaka University (Institute of Social and Economic Research)
2018
2018/10/06: Kobe University
2018/10/03: Chuo University (School of Commerce)
2018/10/03: Hitostubashi University (Informal Lunch Seminar)
2018/05/25: Waseda University (School of Commerce)
2017
2017/11/10: Tokyo University of Science
2017/09/21: Seoul National University
2017/05/09: Hitotsubashi University
2017/01/23: Keio University
2016
2016/11/19: Contract Theory Workshop
2016/10/27: Tohoku University
2016/07/30: Policy Modeling Workshop at GRIPS
2016/07/29: Japan Fair Trade Commission
2016/05/03: Academia Sinica
2015
University of Tokyo [Empirical Micro Research Seminar]
Otaru University of Commerce
2014
University of Mannheim [Internal Seminar]
Kyoto University
2013
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (University of Leuven)
Yokohama National University
Keio University
Nagoya University
2012
University of Mannheim
Bank of Canada
International University of Japan
Development Bank of Japan
2011
Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
HEC Montreal
Bank of Canada
Ifo institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2010
University of Tokyo (Empirical Micro BBL)
Keio University
2006
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo 2006/06/28
Conference/Workshop Presentations:
2024
2024/03/09: Sapporo Workshop on Industrial Economics (SWIE), Otaru, JAPAN
2023
2023/05/12: Workshop on Applied Structural Econometrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SINGAPORE
2023/03/28: Workshop on Banking and Finance, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, JAPAN
2022
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Vienna, AUSTRIA
2021
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2021 Autumn Meeting, Osaka (online participation due to COVID-19), JAPAN
2020
2020/08/: Summer Workshop on Economic Theory (SWET) 2020, Otaru, JAPAN
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2020 Spring Meeting, Fukuoka (online participation due to COVID-19), JAPAN
Pan Pacific Conference in Economic Research 2020, Kapolei, HI, USA (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019
2019/10/Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2019 Autumn Meeting, Kobe, JAPAN (Cancelled due to Typhoon 19)
2019/2/28: Sapporo Workshop in Industrial Economics, Sapporo, JAPAN
2018
2018/09/: European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Athens, GREECE
European Economic Association (EEA) Meeting, Cologne, GERMANY 2018/08/
2018/06/10: Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2018 Spring Meeting, Kobe, JAPAN
2018/04/22: International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Indianapolis, USA
2018/03/28: Pan Pacific Conference in Economic Research, Kapolei, USA
2017
2017/12/22: Canon Institute for Global Studies, Tokyo, JAPAN
2017/12/16: 2nd Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, Auckland, NZ
2017/11/03: 13th Joint Conference of Seoul National University and University of Tokyo, Seoul, KOREA
2017/09/01: European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Maastricht, NETHERLANDS
2017/08/18: 110th Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organizations (OEIO), Tokyo, JAPAN
2017/08/09: Summer Workshop on Economic Theory 2017 (SWET), Otaru, JAPAN
2016
2016/12/13: 1st Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Lisbon, PORTUGAL
31st European Economic Association (EEA) Meeting, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Kyoto, JAPAN
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2016 Spring Meeting, Nagoya, JAPAN
2016 Workshop on Industrial Organization and Management Strategy, Hong Kong
2015
European Economic Association (EEA) Meeting, Mannheim, GERMANY
Summer Workshop on Economic Theory 2015 (SWET), Otaru, JAPAN
Industrial Organization Workshop at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN
6th Mannheim Center of Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) I.O. Day, Mannheim, GERMANY
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, USA
2014
19th Conference of the SFB/TR 15, Caputh, GERMANY
1st Annual University of Calgary Empirical Microeconomics Workshop, Banff, CANADA
The Second Conference on Economic Growth and Productivity in Japan, Tokyo, JAPAN
4th Mannheim Center of Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) I.O. Day, Mannheim, GERMANY
2013
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Evora, PORTUGAL
Industrial Organization Workshop at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN
Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics at Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN
Applied Industrial Organization Workshop of the Barcelona GSE Summer forum, Barcelona, SPAIN
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, USA
2nd Mannheim Center of Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) I.O. Day, Mannheim, GERMANY
16th Conference of the SFB/TR 15, Bonn, GERMANY
2012
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), Dehli, INDIA
1st Mannheim Center of Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) I.O. Day, Mannheim, GERMANY
15th Conference of the SFB/TR 15, Caputh, GERMANY
Consumer Finances and Payment Diaries Workshop, Bank of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Rome, ITALY
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Arlington, USA
2011
Latin American Meeting of Econometric Society (LAMES), Santiago, CHILE
Midwest Econometrics Group, Chicago, USA
2010
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2010 Spring Meeting, Chiba, JAPAN
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Vancouver, CANADA
Research Grants:
As a Principal Investigator
2022FY-2025FY: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) ()
2019FY-2021FY: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (4,160,000JPY)
2019FY: CIRJE Grant (430,000JPY)
2018FY: CIRJE Conference Support Fund (300,000JPY)
2016: Nomura Foundation (650,000JPY)
2016-2018FY: Grant-in-Aid for for Young Scientists (B) (3,900,000JPY for three years)
2015: The Seimeikai Foundation (500,000JPY)
2015: Tokio Marine Kagami Memorial Foundation (800,000JPY)
2014: Conference Support Fund, University of Mannheim
2013: Autonomiefonds, University of Mannheim (2,000EUR)
2013: Conference Support Fund, University of Mannheim
2011: Talent Strategy Grant, Bank of Canada
2010: Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA), University of Pennsylvania
2010: Travel Grant, Penn Institute of Economic Research (PIER), University of Pennsylvania
As a Co-Investigator
2020-2024FY: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI: Ryoko Oki, Hosei University)
2019-2020: (PI: Yuta Toyama, Waseda University)
2019-2021FY: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI: Kenya Fujiwara, Kobe University)
2018-2019FY: Health Labour Sciences Research Grant (PI: Reo Takaku, Hitotsubashi University)
Honors and Scholarships:
2006-2009
Long-term Overseas Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Science, Japan
2004-2006
1st-Class Scholarship, Japan Student Services Organization, Japan
2001-2004
Annual Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Record, Keio University (200,000JPY/Year for 3 Years)
Professional Services
Editorial Position:
Associate editor, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, April 2022 - Present
Editorial Board, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, November 2018 - Present
Ad-hoc Referee Services for:
[A-H] American Economic Review; Contemporary Economic Policy
[I] Information Economics & Policy; International Economic Review; International Journal of Industrial Organization
[J] Japan and the World Economy; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Political Economy
[K-Z] RAND Journal of Economics; Review of Economics and Statistics; Review of Industrial Organization
Conference Organizing:
2022
Program committee, Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory (SWET)
2021
Chair, IO Session, September Workshop on Economics at Otaru (SWEO)
2020
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory (SWET)
Co-Organizer, Pan Pacific Conference on Economic Research 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019
Local organizing committee, Asia-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
Co-Organizer, Industrial Organization Conference at the University of Tokyo
2018
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
Co-Organizer, Pan Pacific Conference on Economic Research 2018
2017
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
2016
Chair, IO Session, Summer Workshop on Economic Theory
Discussants:
2020
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2020 Autumn Meeting, Tokyo (online due to COVID-19), JAPAN
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2020 Spring Meeting, Fukuoka (online due to COVID-19), JAPAN
2019
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2019 Autumn Meeting, Kobe, JAPAN
Keizai Kenkyu (Economic Research) , Tokyo, JAPAN
2018
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Indiana, USA
2017
Japanese Economic Association (JEA) 2017 Spring Meeting, Shiga, JAPAN
2015
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, USA
2014
2014 Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (University of Calgary), Banff, CANADA
The Economics of Payments VII, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, USA
MaCCI Annual Conference, Mannheim, Germany
2013
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, USA
2012
International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Arlington, USA
Educational Services
Recommendation Letters
Satoshi Imahie (AY2023, In preparation)
Kosuke Shimamoto (AY2022, Econ Ph.D. Program at Duke University)
Keigo Makino (AY2021, Econ Ph.D. Program at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Masahiro Nishida (AY2020, Econ Ph.D. Program at University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Shunsuke Matsuno (AY2020, Accounting Ph.D. Program at Columbia Business School, Columbia University)
Yun Ting Yeh (AY2019, Econ Ph.D. Program at University of Arizona)
Kei Ikegami (AY2019, Econ Ph.D. Program at New York University)
Kazuharu Yanagimoto (AY2018, Econ Ph.D. Program at CEMFI)
Yuri Matsumura (AY2018, Econ Ph.D. Program at Rice University)
Takamasa Morioka (AY2017, Econ MA Program at Paris School of Economics)
Thesis Supervising (Acting as a main adviser unless noted; * denotes providing my professional recommendation letter):
Hitotsubashi University
Master Thesis (Graduate School of Economics)
Kamashita (March 2024)
Kaneko (March 2024)
Hashinokuchi (March 2024)
Doctoral Thesis (Graduate School of Economics)
(2023):
University of Tokyo
Master Thesis (Graduate School of Economics)
Naoki Iwai (March 2017)
Takamasa Morioka (March 2017)
Komei Fujita (March 2018)
Hwi Eun Lee (March 2018)
Annie Chen (August 2018)
Wenxin Zhang (March 2019)
Yishi Li (August 2019)
Kei Ikegami (March 2020)
Kohyoh Kurokawa (March 2020)
Yun Ting Yeh (March 2020)
Rei Shimizu (March 2021)
Tsung-Jen Chen (August 2021)
Ryohei Shioda (March 2022)
Yue Zhao (March 2022)
Xiuyuan Fan (March 2022)
Other masters' thesis reader (including both March and August graduate)
March 2016: Ryosuke Ogata
2016: Shuichiro Fujiwara; Sahoko Furuta; Kenta Hosono; Toru Murayama; Taro Shimmura; Yoshiaki Shinohara; Ryo Tsujino; Huan Wang; Dai Zelong
2017: Ryo Nakagami; Beiting Xu
2018: Yuta Akizuki; Yang Qin; Samuel Sho Bloore; Jung-Hsuan Lin; Takuma Mitsukuni
2019: Tianqi Bao; Matthew James Stuart-Box; Fan Xu; Yuxi Zhou
2020: Yixiong Chen; Yancheng Li; Yuxin Liu; Masahiro Nishida; Xuanchung Peng; Shuo Yuan; Shuai Zeng; Zhao Zhao
March 2022: Keigo Makino; Kosuke Shimamoto
Research Paper (Graduate School of Public Policies)
2019 August: Weeruthai Kittipipatputi
2016 August: Adriana Ivonne Cardenas
Doctoral Thesis (Graduate School of Economics) - one of the committee members (not a main advisor)
2022 ?: Kyogo Kanazawa
2019 March: Taku Masuda
Doctoral Thesis (Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) - one of the committee members (not a main advisor)
2020 August: Sunbin Yoo (Kyushu University)
University of Mannheim
Bachelor Thesis (Co-supervising with Prof. Schmidt-Dengler, indicated by SD, or Prof. Nosal, indicated by N)
2013: (SD) Michael Graetz* (MA Program at University of Mannheim)
2013: (SD) Frederik Weber* (MA Program at Maastricht University)
2014: (SD) Pascal Lueke
2014: (SD) Paul Skiba* (MA Program at Cass Business School, City, University of London)
2015: (N) Florian Kraemer
Teaching Experience ((U) and (G) denote Undergraduate and Graduate, respectively.):
Hitotsubashi University
(G) Advanced Industrial Economics I: 2022 Summer, 2023 A&W
(G) Advanced Industrial Economics II: 2022 A&W, 2023 S&S
(U) Industrial Economics I: 2022 Spring, 2023 Summer
(U) Undergraduate Seminar: 2022, 2023
(G) Graduate Seminar: 2022, 2023
University of Tokyo (Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Economics)
(G) Empirical Industrial Organization I: 2015 A1, 2017S2 2019 S1, 2020 S1, 2021 S1
(G) Empirical Industrial Organization II: 2015 A2, 2018 S2, 2019 S2, 2020 S2
(G) Empirical I.O. Methods for Financial Institutions: 2016 S2, 2017 A1, 2018 A1
(G) Microeconomics Workshop I: 2016 S1/S2
(G) Microeconomics Workshop II: 2016 A1/A2
(U) Industrial Organization II: (2015 A1/A2), 2016 A2, 2017 A2, 2018 A2, 2019 S2, 2020 S2, 2021 S2
University of Mannheim (Department of Economics)
(G) Empirical Industrial Organization I: Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
(U) Seminar in Empirical Industrial Organization for Financial Institutions: 2013 Spring, 2014 Spring, 2015 Spring
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics
(U) [Recitation Instructor] Introductory Econometrics: Spring 2010
(U) [Teaching Assistant] Introduction to Industrial Organization: Fall 2009
University of Tokyo, Department of Economics
(U) [Teaching Assistant] Game Theory: Spring 2006
University of Tokyo (Graduate School of Public Policy)
(G) [Recitation Instructor] Core Microeconomics: Spring 2005
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