Kenzo Imamura

Working papers

• Stable and Fair Random Allocations in a Two-Sided Discrete-Concave Market (with Yasushi Kawase)
  Extended abstract at EC' 26

• Stable Matching under Inconsistent Choice Functions (with Keisuke Bando and Toshiyuki Hirai)
  Presentation at MATCH-UP 2026  

• Path Independence for Choice Correspondences (with Keisuke Bando and Yasushi Kawase)
  Extended abstract at EC' 25

• Strategy-Proofness and Competitive Equilibrium with Transferable Utility: The Necessity of Gross Substitutes (with Keisuke Bando and Tomoya Kazumura)
  Extended abstract at EC' 24

• Measuring Manipulability of Matching Mechanisms (with Kentaro Tomoeda)

Publications

1. Equal Treatment and its Market Design Implications (with Kentaro Tomoeda)
   Journal of Mathematical Economics (2026)
   Previously circulated as "Tie-breaking or Not: A Choice Function Approach''

2. Efficient and Strategy-Proof Mechanism under General Constraints (with Yasushi Kawase)
   Theoretical Economics (2025), extended abstract at EC' 24

3. Market Design with Deferred Acceptance: A Recipe for Characterizations (with Battal Doğan and M. Bumin Yenmez)
   Journal of Economic Theory  (2025)

4. Meritocracy versus Diversity
   Journal of Economic Theory (2025)

5. Efficient Matching under General Constraints (with Yasushi Kawase)
   Games and Economic Behavior (2025),  presentation at MATCH-UP 2022 

6. Stability in Matching with Externalities: Pairs Competition and Oligopolistic Joint Ventures (with Hideo Konishi and Chen-Yu Pan)
   Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2023)

7. Assortative Matching with Externalities and Farsighted Agents (with Hideo Konishi)
   Dynamic Games and Applications (2023), special issue on Group Formation and Farsightedness

8. A necessary and sufficient condition for weak Maskin monotonicity in an allocation problem with indivisible goods (with Keisuke Bando)
   Social Choice and Welfare (2016) 

Work in progress

• Overlapping Reserves without a Common Priority: Theory and Evidence from School Choice in Chile (with Battal Doğan and M. Bumin Yenmez)

• Assortativeness Measures for Multi-Type Markets: Theory and Application (with Suguru Otani, Tohya Sugano, and Koji Yokote)
  Substantially expanded from "A Note on Assortativeness Measures"

• Cores of 3-distant convex games (with Keisuke Bando, Toshiyuki Hirai, and Ryuhei Mizutani)

• Welfare Loss and Robustness of Deferred Acceptance (with Tetsutaro Hatakeyama)

• Why Women Choose Middle-Skill More? Marriage Market and Child Penalty (with Norihiro Komura and Takashi Unayama)