RESEARCH

Publication

• The Bright Side of Outside Market Entry with Manufacturer Encroachment, SSRN Discussion Paper, February 2022, (joint with Yuta Kittaka), forthcoming at Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

• Personalized Pricing with Heterogeneous Mismatch Costs, ISER Discussion Paper No. 1184, August 2022,  (joint with Noriaki Matsushima and Tomomichi Mizuno), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 90, No. 2, 369-388, October 2023, free access.

• Competition between branded and nonbranded firms and its impact on welfare, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 87, No. 2, 647-665, October 2020, free access, Online Appendix, Online Supplementary Section. 

• Firms’ strategic delegation with heterogeneous consumers, Journal of Economics, Vol. 131, No. 3, 199-221, June 2020,  (joint with DongJoon Lee and Kangsik Choi), free access, SSRN Discussion Paper (Oct 2018, No. 3256056). 

• Manufacturer's direct distribution with incumbent retailer's product line choice, (based on some part of the discussion paper, "Retailer's Product Line Choice with Manufacturer's Multichannel Marketing'' ISER Discussion Paper No. 976, free access (until January 11, 2019), Economics Letters, Vol. 174, 136-139, January 2019.

• Firms' Timing of Production with Heterogeneous Consumers, (based on some part of the discussion paper, "Should Brand Firms Always Take Pioneering Position?'' ISER Discussion Paper No. 938, June 2015), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 51, No. 4, 1339-1362, Nov 2018.

• Unilateral Technology Sharing among Competitors in Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers, (based on some part of the discussion paper, "Technology Transfer in the Market with Heterogeneous Consumers,'' ISER Discussion Paper No. 953, December 2015), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 17, Iss. 4, Oct 2017, (joint with Shohei Yoshida).

Working Paper

• Trade Liberalization Under Foreign Manufacturers' Dual-Channel Distribution, SSRN Discussion Paper, July 2022, (joint with Shohei Yoshida).

• Managing Investments Under Bargaining in a Coopetitive Supply Chain,  SSRN Discussion Paper, January  2022, (joint with Michael Kopel and Shohei Yoshida). 

• Dual-Channel versus Monopoly in Supply Chain Structure Selection: When Demand Characteristics Play Decisive Roles (former title: Direct Distribution, Multilateral Contracting, and Complete Foreclosure), SSRN Discussion Paper, July 2020, R&R at Journal of Industrial Economics.  

• A manufacturer’s incentive to open its direct channel and its impact on welfare, ISER Discussion Paper No. 1026, March 2018,  (joint with Noriaki Matsushima and Tomomichi Mizuno).

• Supplier Encroachment and Consumer Welfare: Upstream Firm's Opportunism and Multichannel Distribution, ISER Discussion Paper No. 1020, February 2018.

• Strategic Perils of Outsourcing: Sourcing Strategy and Product Positioning, ISER Discussion Paper No. 983, October 2016, (joint with Noriaki Matsushima).

Work in Progress (Selected)

• Search Prominence, Loyal Consumers, and Social Influencers (Tentative, joint with Yuta Kittaka)

• Projection-Biased Consumer Search (Tentative, joint with Takeharu Sogo)