Selected works

When I worked on Dynamic General Equilibrium models...

Yamada (2008) ``Macroeconomic implications of conspicuous consumption: A Sombartian dynamic model," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 67, 322-337.
Arato and Yamada (2012) ``Japan's Intangible Capital and Valuation of Corporations in a Neoclassical Framework," Review of Economic Dynamics 15, 459-478.

Behavioral economics of income comparisons

Yamada and Sato (2013) ``Another Avenue for Anatomy of Income Comparisons: Evidence from Hypothetical Choice Experiments" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 89, 35-57: cited in Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2
Fontaine and Yamada (2014) ``Caste comparisons: Evidence from India" World Development 64, 407-419.
Clark, Senik, and Yamada (2017) ``When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 70, 1-9.
Bottan, Perez-Truglia, Shigeoka, and Yamada (Draft coming soon) ``All Glitter, No Gold: Measuring preferences for self-versus social-image".
- [RCT Registry]

Randomized information treatments: tough to get some positive results

Shigeoka and Yamada (2019) ``Income-comparison Attitudes in the US and the UK: Evidence from Discrete-choice Experiments", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 164, 414-438
Kitamura and Yamada (2023) ``The Constructive and Destructive Power of Social Norms in the Presence of Authoritative Influence", Online first at American Psychologist

McAlinn, Naghavi, Pignataro, Sugasawa, and Yamada (new!) ``Patent Waiver and Incentive to Innovate".
- [RCT Registry] -[Pre Analysis plan at RCT registry] [Arxiv] [slides] -[Replication package ]

Some fMRI studies (Neuro-economics)

S.C. Tanaka*, K. Yamada*, R. Kitada, S. Tanaka, S.K. Sugawara, F. Ohtake, and N. Sadato (2016) ``Overstatement in happiness reporting with ordinal, bounded scale," Scientific Reports 6, 21321. (* double first-authored)
S.C. Tanaka, K. Yamada, H. Yoneda, and F. Ohtake (2014) ``Neural Mechanisms of Gain-Loss Asymmetry in Temporal Discounting," Journal of Neuroscience 34(16), 5595-5602.

Lucky me: got an invitation to join a terrific study (overtime work sucks, tho)

Arai, Hamano, Katayama, Murakami, and Yamada (in progress). ``Nightless City: Impacts of Policymakers’ Questions on Overtime Work of Government Officials." [Arxiv]