Kenzo Imamura
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
"Strategy-Proofness and Competitive Equilibrium with Transferable Utility: Gross Substitutes Revisited" 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, conditionally accepted by Theoretical Economics.
An extended abstract appeared in the proceedings of The 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024).
"Tie-breaking 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, revision requested by Journal of Economic Theory.
"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), revision requested by Journal of Economic Theory.
"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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