Email hiroaki.odahara [at] e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Research interest
Mechanism Design, Auction Theory
Current Employment
Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) Oct. 2020 -
Manager, UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc. Apr. 2025 -
Researcher, ERATO Kojima Market Design Project Oct. 2023 -
Past Employment
Research, Manager, VisasQ Inc. Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2020
Analyst, UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc. Sep. 2023 - Mar. 2025
Advisor, UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc. Dec. 2020 - Sep. 2023
Education
Ph.D. Student, The University of Electro-Communications Apr. 2026–Present
M.A. in Economics, The University of Tokyo Mar. 2019
B.A. in Economics, The University of Tokyo Mar. 2016
Awards
Ouchi Hyoe Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis, The University of Tokyo Mar. 2016
Specially Selected Paper for the Undergraduate Thesis, The University of Tokyo Mar. 2016
Toward Market Design in Practice: A Progress Report (with Fuhito Kojima) The Japanese Economic Review volume 73, 463–480 (2022)
Reversing Reserve Logic: Optimal Holdback in Local Allocation under Scalable Entry, UTMD Working Paper No. 146, 2026.
Exact Budget Balance via Payment-Rule Ambiguity: Incentive Preservation, Transfer Capacity, and Participation, UTMD Working Paper No. 141, 2026.
Earlier version: Exact Budget-Balance Transformations via Payment-Rule Ambiguity, UTMD Working Paper No. 130, 2026.
The Targeted-Loss Exposure Frontier in Auctions, UTMD Working Paper No. 138, 2026.
Earlier combined version: The Upside of Unreliability: Screening via Sunk Costs in Platforms, UTMD Working Paper No. 116, 2026.