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I am a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD). Before joining the University of Tokyo, I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston College.
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Email: imamurak[at]e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Research Interests
Market Design, Matching Theory, Microeconomic Theory
Research Papers
"Stable Matching under Inconsistent Choice Functions" with Keisuke Bando and Toshiyuki Hirai.
"Properties of Path-Independent Choice Correspondences and Their Applications to Efficient and Stable Matchings" with Keisuke Bando and Yasushi Kawase.
An extended abstract appeared in the proceedings of The 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2025).
"Strategy-Proofness and Competitive Equilibrium with Transferable Utility: The Necessity of Gross Substitutes" with Keisuke Bando and Tomoya Kazumura.
An extended abstract appeared in the proceedings of The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024).
"Efficient and Strategy-Proof Mechanism under General Constraints" with Yasushi Kawase, 2025, Theoretical Economics 20 (2), 481–509.
An extended abstract appeared in the proceedings of The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024).
"To Break a Tie or Not: A Choice Function Approach" with Kentaro Tomoeda.
"Market Design with Deferred Acceptance: A Recipe for Characterizations" with Battal Doğan and M. Bumin Yenmez, 2025, Journal of Economic Theory 228, 106057.
"Efficient Matching under General Constraints" with Yasushi Kawase, 2024, Games and Economic Behavior 145, 197-207.
An extended abstract appeared in the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences (MATCH-UP 2022).
"Meritocracy versus Diversity," 2020, (Job Market Paper for 2020-2021), 2025, Journal of Economic Theory 228, 106047.
"Measuring Manipulability of Matching Mechanisms" with Kentaro Tomoeda.
"Stability in Matching with Externalities: Pairs Competition and Oligopolistic Joint Ventures" with Hideo Konishi and Chen-Yu Pan, 2023, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 205, 270-286.
"Assortative Matching with Externalities and Farsighted Agents" with Hideo Konishi, 2023, Dynamic Games and Applications in the special issue on Group Formation and Farsightedness 13(2), 497-509.
"A necessary and sufficient condition for weak Maskin monotonicity in an allocation problem with indivisible goods" with Keisuke Bando, 2016, Social Choice and Welfare 47(3), 589-606.
Work in Progress
"Why Women Choose Middle-skill More? Marriage Market and Child Penalty" with Norihiro Komura and Takashi Unayama.
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