Publication (refereed)

1. Resolving the Conflict on Conduct Parameter Estimation in Homogeneous Goods Markets between Bresnahan (1982) and Perloff and Shen (2012). Economics Letters (2023): 111193. (with Yuri Matsumura, WP, Published version, Code and Data)

2. Unified Container Shipping Industry Data From 1966: Freight Rate, Shipping Quantity, Newbuilding, Secondhand, and Scrap Price. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 176 (2023): 103186 (with Takuma Matsuda, WP, Published version, Code and Data)

3. Individual Rationality Conditions of Identifying Matching Costs in Transferable Utility Matching Games. (2024) Economics Bulletin, accepted (WP, Code and Data) 

Working Papers

Industrial Organization

1. Estimating Endogenous Coalitional Mergers: Merger Costs and Assortativeness of Size and Specialization (April 2023).  (WP, Code and Data)

• Selected for the runner-up of the 24th Moriguchi prize at Osaka University, the best paper award of the 16th Applied Econometrics Conference at Hitotsubashi University. 

2. Industry Dynamics with Shipping Cartels: The Case of the Container Shipping Industry (Oct 2023).  (WP, Code) Job Market Paper

• Selected for the best paper award of the 18th Applied Econometrics Conference at Osaka University, the Kanematsu prize 2023 at Kobe University.

Applied econometrics (i.e., using no actual data)

3. Conduct Parameter Estimation in Homogeneous Goods Markets with Equilibrium Existence and Uniqueness Conditions: The Case of Log-linear Specification. (Sep 2023) (with Yuri Matsumura, WP, Code and Data) 

4. Finite Sample Performance of a Conduct Parameter Test in Homogenous Goods Markets (Oct 2023) (with Yuri Matsumura, WP, Code and Data)

5. A Note on Identification of Match Fixed Effects as Interpretable Unobserved Match Affinity (with Tohya Sugano)   (WP (empirical part will be added), Code and Data)

6. An MPEC Estimator for Sequential Search model (with Shinji Koiso)

Micro/Macro Labor economics

7. Estimating Recruitment Elasticity in the Multi-stage and Bilateral Job Matching Process (May 2023) (with Ryo Kambayashi and Kohei Kawaguchi, WP)

8. Nonparametric Estimation of Matching Efficiency and Mismatch in Labor Markets via Public Employment Security Offices in Japan, 1966-2024 (available upon request, Code and Data (will be available))

Transportation economics

9. Unified Merger List in the Container Shipping Industry from 1966: A Structural Estimation of the Transition of Importance of a Firm’s Age, Tonnage Capacity, and Geographical Proximity on Merger Decision  (Nov 2023) (with Takuma Matsuda, WP, Code (will be available))

Selected Work in progress

10. A Note on Identification of the Representative Agent Betting model in Horse Racings (with Hiroaki Hanyu, Kazuhiro Teramoto)

11. Choosing a lottery with reference points in actual sports competition. (with Masaya Nishihata)

Conference papers

1. Matsuda & Otani (2022). Disentangling Cartel Dissolution: The Case of the 1980s' Container Crisis. (Code and Data. Accepted at IAME 2022 Conference (https://www.iame2022.org/ ))