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 (2025: NEW!) ``Feeling Rich or Looking Rich? Quantifying Self-Image and Social-Image Motives".  - submitted
  - [RCT Registry] - [Questionnaire and Replication package] - [NBER WP] - [UCLA Anderson review]

Randomized information treatments

• 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 (2025) ``The Constructive and Destructive Power of Social Norms in the Presence of Authoritative Influence",  American Psychologist 80, 345-358

-[RCT Registry]  -[Pre Analysis plan at RCT registry] -[Questionnaire] -[Arxiv] -[Replication package]

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

• Kitamura, Takahashi, and Yamada   (2025: NEW and updated (ver. 3)!)  "Misperceived Social Norms and Political Accountability: Evidence and Theory"  - submitted 

- [RCT Registry] [Arxiv]

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. 

• J. Chikazoe, K. Kawaguchi, K. Suzuki, K. Uetake, Y. Watanabe, and K. Yamada (2025: NEW and updated (ver. 2)!) "Why Default Nudges Work:Identifying Cognitive Mechanism with fMRI."
  
  - [RCT Registry] [Arxiv] [Slides]

Cross disciplinary studies (mostly with medical sectors)

• Zhang et al. (2024) ``A periodic split attractor reconstruction method facilitates cardiovascular signal diagnoses and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome monitoring," Heliyon 10(15) e35623-e35623.

• Yamada et al. (2024) ``Unveiling Willingness to Pay for iPSC-Based Retinal Cell therapy through Discrete Choice Experiments," [Arxiv] -[Questionnaire and Replication Package] - submitted

A complehensive study on overtime work (time series analyses of geography data, theory, and survey): who wants to referee this? 

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