This website is managed by Suguru Otani (pronunciation: "SooGooLoo Oh-tani"). CV
Email: suguru.otani[at]e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Research field: Empirical Industrial Organization, Empirical Matching, Applied Microeconomics
Employment
2024-, Project Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo Market Design Center
Education
2023, Ph.D. in Economics, Rice University
2018, M.A. in Economics, Osaka University
2015, B.A. in Business and Commerce, Keio University
Publication
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)
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)
Working Papers
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. (The best paper award among Japanese Economics PhD Students by the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University). www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/moriguchi/moriguchi_en.html
Selected for the best paper award of the 16th Applied Econometrics Conference at Hitotsubashi University.
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.
Selected for the Kanematsu prize 2023 at Kobe University.
Estimating Recruitment Elasticity in the Multi-stage and Bilateral Job Matching Process (May 2023) (with Ryo Kambayashi and Kohei Kawaguchi, WP)
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))
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)
Finite Sample Performance of a Conduct Parameter Test in Homogenous Goods Markets (Oct 2023) (with Yuri Matsumura, WP, Code and Data)
Individual Rationality Conditions of Identifying Matching Costs in Transferable Utility Matching Games. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00713. (April 2022) R&R at Economics Bulletin
Conference papers
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/ ))