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Morifumi Hirao

Assistant Professor

Faculty of Management

Otemon Gakuin University

Email_  morifumi.hirao@gmail.com

Research areas

• Marketing

• Industrial Organization

Education

• Ph.D. Kobe University (2018.04 - 2021.03) Commerce

• M.A. University of Westminster (2015.10 - 2016.09) Economics

• B.A. Kobe University (2008.04 - 2012.03) Commerce

Employment

• 2023.04 - Present_Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, Otemon Gakuin University

• 2021.04 - 2023.03_Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Nagasaki

• 2017.01 - 2018.04_Administrative assistant, A Support Project of International Business Environment Improvement and City Sale Projects (Osaka, Japan)

• 2012.04 - 2015.09_Research associate, ARCHITECTS TEEHOUSE

Published papers

• "External Diseconomies of Business Improvement Districts: Negative Impact on Residential Property Values – Evidence from the City of Westminster", International Journal of Public Administration, April 2020.

Working papers / Revise & Resubmit papers

• "Which Product Categories Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Rental Market?", January 2024

• "Effects of a Socially Concerned Manufacturer on Endogenous Timing Game in Dual-Channel Supply Chain", March 2022

  • Joint with Jumpei Hamamura

• "Incumbent Repositioning Against Entry in a Vertically Differentiated Market", April 2022. 

  • R&R (Revise and Resubmit) at RIO

• "Incumbent Repositioning Against a Quality (Dis)Advantaged Entrant", July 2020. 

  • Joint with Yusuke Zennyo

Presentations

• 2024.03.08,09_Sapporo Workshop on Industrial Economics (SWIE) にて, "A P2P Product Rental Market with Individual Uncertainty"を報告

• 2024.03.04,05_南山ワークショップ「マーケティング論・産業組織論・ビジネス経済学」（南山大学）にて, "A P2P Product Rental Market with Individual Uncertainty"を報告

• 2023.12.15_Asian-Pacific Industrial Organization Conference (APIOC) (香港科技大学, 中国)にて, "Which Industries Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing?"を報告

• 2023.09.06_産業組織研究会（東京大学社会科学研究所）にて, "Which Industries Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing?"を報告

• 2023.06_FAWK（京都大学）にて, "Which Industries Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing?"を報告

• 2023.03_ Applied Economics and Management Workshop 第 13 回研究会（国立高雄大学, 台湾）にて, "Which Industries Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing?"を報告

• 2022.10_日本応用経済学会秋季大会（同志社大学）にて, "Which Industries Welcome Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing?"を報告（討論者：橘高勇太（一橋大学）)

• 2022.09_Workshop on Empirical Research in Marketing (WERM) 第２回夏季研究報告会（一橋大学）にて, "A Review of Current Literature on the P2P Rental Services Market"を報告

• 2022.01_南山ワークショップ（zoom開催）にて, "Quality Choice in Sharing Economy"を報告

• 2021.06_日本応用経済学会春季大会（zoom開催）にて, "Incumbent Repositioning in a Vertically Differentiated Market"を報告（討論者：松井建二（神戸大学大学院経営学研究科））

• 2020.12_第１回「プラットフォームと流通の研究会」（神戸大学六甲台キャンパス）にて, "Incumbent Repositioning with Performance Difference"を報告

• 2020.11_日本応用経済学会秋季大会（zoom開催）にて, "Incumbent Repositioning with Performance Difference"を報告（討論者：服部圭介（青山学院大学））

• 2017.08_  Retail Marketing Workshop (at Ritsumeikan University)

• 2017.05_  "Gogoken" - a study meeting on marketing (at Kobe University)

Works in progress

• Which Product Categories Welcom P2P Product Sharing?

• P2P Product Sharing Platforms with Individual Uncertainty (joint with Kittaka Yuta)

• Differences and Emergence of P2P Product-Sharing and Unused Markets (joint with Kittaka Yuta)

Grants

• 2023年-2026年：科学研究費_若手研究（研究代表者）『数理的なモデル分析に基づくP2Pレンタル市場拡大に対する生産企業の戦略的対応の解明』

• 2021年-2023年：科学研究費_研究活動スタート支援（研究代表者）『数理的なモデル分析に基づく新規企業参入への対応戦略に関する研究』

• 2020年-2024年：科学研究費_基盤B（研究分担者）『プラットフォームビジネスに適合した流通システムの形態に関する研究』