2025 (April) - Current
Director: ISER, the University of Osaka
2023 (October) - Current
Visiting Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Limassol
2020 (April) - 2025 (March)
Director: Research Center for Behavioral Economics, ISER, Osaka University
2019 (Sep.) –Current
Professor: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
2016 (Jan.) – 2019 (Aug)
Professor: Université Côte d’Azur (due to creation of the Université Côte d’Azur)
2015 (Sep.) – 2019 (Aug)
Professor: GREDEG (UMR 7321) and University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis
2015 (Sep.) – 2016 (Aug)
Visiting professor: Skema Business School
2011 (Oct.) – 2016 (Sep)
Junior Member: L’institut Universitaire de France
2012 (Jan.) – 2015 (Aug.):
Professor: GREQAM (UMR 7316) and Aix-Marseille University
2009 (Sep.) – 2011 (Dec.)
Professor: GREQAM and Université de la Méditerranée
2009 (Jan. –Aug.)
Visiting Professor: GREQAM. and Université de la Méditerranée
2007 (Aug-Dec)
Visiting Researcher: GREQAM, Marseille, FRANCE
2005 (Jun.)-2011 (Mar.): leave between April 2009-March 2011
Assistant Professor in Economics. Graduate School of Humanites and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
2003 (Jun)-2005 (May)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Earth Institute, Columbia University
2003 Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, New York
2000 M.Phil., Economics, Columbia University, New York
1999 M.A., Economics, Columbia University, New York
1997 B.A., International Relations, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
2023- 2027 JSPS Kaken A "Experimental Analyses of Expectation Formation"
2019-2022 JSPS. "国際共同研究加速基金（帰国発展支援）"Experimental and Behavioral Analyses for re-thinking Macroeconomics"
2017 UCA Academie 2 grant “Workshops on Complex Evolving System Approach in Economics and Social Sciences” (PI)
2017 UCA Academie 1 grant “Effects of the Digitization of Ccommunication on (economic) collaboration and competition” (DigiCOM, co-PI)
2017-2019 UCA Structuring project “Understanding complex adaptive socio-economics interactions” (UCAinACTION, PI)
2017 UCA Academie 5 grant “Experimental analysis of decentralized trading markets” (PI)
2016-2017 Research Grant from The Murata Science Foundation
2016-2019 ORA-Plus project: “Behavioral and Experimental Analyses on Macro-finance (BEAM)” (PI of the consortium of teams from FR, DL, NL, JP)
2011-2014 ANR-JSPS Bilateral Research Grant “CHORUS” (PI of French team): “Behavioral and Cognitive foundations for agent-based models (BECOA)”
2011-2012 JSPS-CNRS Bilateral Research Grant (PI of French team)
2010-2013 Prime de Excellence Scientifique, Université de la Méditerranée
2010 Research Grant from The Japan Economic Research Foundation
2007-2009 Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
2007 Overseas Advanced Educational Research Practice Support, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
2007 Research Grant from Inamori Foundation
2007 Research Grant from Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation
2006 Research Grant from Zengin Foundation for Studies on Economics and Finance
2005 Research Grant from Nomura Foundation for Social Science
2001 Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University
1998-2003 Fellow, Honjo International Scholarship Fund, Tokyo, Japan
1998-1999 IMF-Japan Scholarship for Advanced Studies
Experimental Nash Program. Bargaining: Experiments, Empirics, and Theory (Auguest, 2025, Seoul)
An experiment on dynamic beauty contest games. Xiamen Conference on Experimental Economics (December, 2024, Xiamen)
An experiment on dynamic beauty contest games. Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics (June, 2024, Singapore)
Negative tail events, emotions & risk taking. Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting of Society for Experimental Finance (Nov 4-5, 2022, Singapore (held virtually), invited lecture)
An experimental Nash program. 12th international conference of the French association of experimental economics (June 30-July 1, 2022. Lyon. Invited lecture)
Possible macro implications of interaction among heterogeneous boundedly rational agents: Lessons from laboratory experiments, 3rd International Conference on Decision Economics (October, 2021, Invited lecture)
An experiment on the Nash program: Comparing two bargaining implementations of the Shapley value , 2021 ESA Global Online Around-the-Clock Meetings (July, Invited lecture)
Cognitive ability and observed behavior in laboratory experiments: implications for macroeconomic theory, 2019 Spring meeting of Japanese Economic Association. (invited lecture)
Wealth preferences and wealth inequality: Experimental evidence, Empirical Moral Science (Sendai, March 2024)
Algorithm is appreciated more than experts in predicting stock price: An experiment (CREST-WASEDA workshop, Paris, Sep. 2024)
Experimental Nash Program (East-Asian Game Theory Conference, Jeju, August, 2024)
Paying to avoid the spotlight, International workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Economics (Osaka, March 2024), Empirical Moral Science (Fukuoka, March 2024), AP-ESA (Singapore, May 2024)
Value of protecting one's social image. CREST-LESSAC-CEFM workshop (Paris, Sep. 2023), Nice Workshop (Nice, Sep. 2023), Experimental Social Science (Tokyo, Dec. 2023)
An experiment of dynamics beauty contest games. SEF (Sofia, June 2023), ESA (Lyon, June 2023), CEF (Nice, July 2023)
Voluntary participation and cooperation, Workshop on Private vs. Public Solutions to Collective Action Problems (Venice, July 2023)
An experiment on long-run forecasts, International Workshop on Experimental Macroeconomics and Finance (Osaka, March, 2023)
An experiment on long-run forecasts, Workshop on Microeconomic Analysis of Social Systems and Institutions (Osaka, March 2023)
An experiment on long-run forecasts, CEFM Workshop (Nagasaki, Feb. 2023)
Experimental comparison of semi-structured demand based and offer based bargaining experiments, 2022 Experimental Social Science conference (Shinshu. Oct 2022)
Comments on Kamijo and Yokote "Behavioral Bargaining Theory", 2022 Autumn meeting of Japanese Economic Association (Keio, Oct 2022)
An Experiment on Dynamic Beauty Contest Game, International Workshop on Experimental Macroeconomics and Finance (Osaka, Oct 2022)
Experimental Nash Program, Conference on Bargaining Experiment (Ritsumaikan, August 2022)
An experiment on the Nash program: Comparing two bargaining implementations of the Shapley value, Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design (Singapore (virtual), July 2022)
An experimental comparison of two mechanisms for implementing Shapley value, 2020 Game Theory Workshop (Komazawa U, Tokyo), International workshop for lab and field experiment (Osaka, March 2021), SAET 2021 (online)
Experimental analyses of decentralized trading markets, 2019 SEF Asia-Pacific Meeting (Singapore) , 2019 Experimental Social Science conference (Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo JP)
“A Quantitative Easing Experiment” Theoretical and Experimental Macro workshop 2018 (Berlin)
“Communication and Swift Trust” BEAM Workshop 2018 (Waseda, Tokyo), ESA World Congress 2018 (Berlin)
“The effects of strategic environment, communication, and cognitive skills on cooperation” AFSEE 2018 (Nice)
“Diversity in cognitive ability and mispricing in experimental asset markets” AFSE 2017 (Nice), BEAM-ABEE workshop 2018 (Amsterdam), LESSAC workshop 2018 (Dijon), AMES 2019 (Xiamen)
“Effects of strategic uncertainty on the traders' confidence in their price forecasts.” SEF 2016 (Mannheim)
“The strategic environment effect in beauty contest games” MBEE 2016 (Maastricht), ESA North America 2016 (Tuscan)
“The effect of strategic environment and group size in beauty contest games” ASFEE 2015 (Paris)
“Meaningful learning in weighted voting games: An experiment” WEHIA 2015 (Sophia-Antipolis), Kyoto International Experimental Workshop
“Effect of heterogeneity in a cognitive ability among traders in an experimental asset market” SEF 2015 (Nijmegen), CEF 2016 (Bordeaux), FUR 2016 (Warwick), SEF North America 2016 (Tuscan)
“Principle of minimum differentiation revisited” WEHIA 2015 (Sophia-Antipolis)
“Cognitive ability and the effect of strategic uncertainty” Kansai University Experimental Economics Workshop, March 17-18. 2015 (Osaka)
“The effect of strategic environment in beauty contest games” Kyoto Experimental Economics Workshop, Jan 31-Feb 1. 2015 (Kyoto)
Introductory presentation for the session on “What is the role of behavioral economics and experimental economics for economic theory and game theory?” Satellite Workshop C at SAET 2014
“Strategic uncertainty and cognitive ability in an experimental asset market,” Satellite Workshop B at SAET 2014 (Tokyo)
“An experiment on lowest unique integer games” SAET 2014 (Tokyo)
“How do experienced traders respond to inflows of inexperienced traders? An experimental analysis”, ASFEE 2014 (Besancon), SEF 2014 (Zurich)
“Strategic uncertainty in an experimental asset market.” LEEM workshop (Montpellier, France, Jan. 2014) RACE colloquium (Kashiwa, Japan, March 2014), Workshop on Empirical Moral Science (Tsukuba, Japan, March 2014)
“If you are so rich, why aren’t you smart?” Winter Simulation Conference 2013
“Strategic uncertainty and individual bounded rationality in an experimental asset market,” ASFEE 2013 (Lyon), Experimental Finance Conference (SEF, Tilburg), ESA 2013 (Zurich), AMES (Singapore), ASSET (Bilbao)
“Heterogeneity in Learning Rules” WCSS 2012 (Taipei)
“Individual irrationality and lack of common knowledge of rationality in experimental asset markets,” CEF, 2012 (Prague), WEHIA 2012 (Paris), ASFEE 2012 (Montpellier), WCSS 2012 (Taipei), ASSET 2012 (Limasol, Cyprus), AEW 2012 (Granada, Spain)
“A Note on a Weighted Voting Experiment: Human Mistakes in Cooperative Games” Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET) Annual Meeting, October 2011, Evora, Portugal
“An experimental study on learning about voting powers” French Association of Experimental Economists (ASFEE) Annual Meeting, November 2010, Grenoble, France
“Complexity, Uncertainty and Organizational Congruency”, Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting September 2010, Rome, Italy, ESHIA/WEHIA June 2010, Alessandria, Italy, Winter WEHIA December 2008, Taiwan
“Born Under a Lucky Star?”, 16th International Conference on Computational Economics and Finance, July, 2010 London, England, Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, March 2008, Boston, M.A.
“Learning Games”, 3rd World Congress of Game Theory Society, July 2008, Evanston, IL. 14th International Conference on Computational Economics and Finance, June, 2008 Paris, France
“Organization Undertaking Complex Projects in Uncertain Environments,” Business Economic International Workshop, July 2007, Shizuoka, Japan
“Why Personal Ties Cannot Be Bought,” American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 2006, Boston, MA
“Information, Trust, and Cooperation in Evolving Social Networks,” 4th Congress on Proximity, Marseille (France), June, 2004, International Workshop on Socio- and Econo-Physics, December, 2003, Tokyo, Japan
“Costly Transmission of Information: A comparison of signals and networks” Conference on Networks: Theory and Applications, Vaxholm (Sweden) June, 2004
“Viability of Cooperation in Evolving Interaction Structures,” Agent 2002 Conference on Social Agents: Ecology, Exchange & Evolution, October, 2002, Chicago, IL, 8th International Conference on Computational Economics and Finance, July, 2002, Aix en Provence, France
“Evolving Social Structures and Cooperation,” Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, March 2002, Boston, MA
2024: University of Limassol, Aoyama Gakuin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tohoku Gakuin University
2023: Kyungpook National University (intensive course), Waseda, Tsukuba, Hakodate Future University (for undergraduate), Keio University (for undergraduate), National Taiwan University,
2022: Nice, UC Davis
2021: VEABES, Keio
2020: University of Tokyo.
2019: University of Technology Sydney, Monash
2018: Paris School of Economics, Cambridge, Ecole Polytechnique, Hitotsubashi, City University of London, GREDEG
2017: Nanyang Technological University, Paris, Montpellier (LAMETA), Osaka (ISER), Tsukuba
2016: Waseda, Ritsumeikan, Osaka (ISER), Southampton, Lyon (GATE), Kansai
2015 Paris, Kansai, Kochi Tech, Waseda, Innsbruck, Renne (CREM), Nice (GREDEG), Glasgow, Edinburgh, GRIPS, Keio, Osaka, Doshisha, Hokkaido, Waseda, Hitotsubashi, EHESS (Paris, Fundaction Franco-Japonais)
2014: Luxembourg School of Finance. University of Tokyo. Research into Artifacts, Center for Enginnering (RACE, University of Tokyo), Research Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Tsukuba), Japan Institute of Marketing Science, Division of Research on Marketing Dynamics (@ Meiji University), Honjo International Scholarship Foundation Workshop
2003-2013: GREThA (Bordeaux), University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto, University of Kobe, Waseda University, University of Technology Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of Adelaide, Tinbergen Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa),Burgandy School of Business (Dijon), Higher School of Economics (Moscow), University of Genoa, Universidad de Jaume I (Castellon, Spain), Osaka University, University of Tsukuba, CUNY Queens College, Union College, GREQAM, Osaka University, University of Tokyo, Waseda University, Aoyama Gakuin University, Institute of Developing Economies, Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University
Grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Swiss National Science Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation
Journals
Advances in Complex Systems, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Journal of Finance, Experimental Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Management Science, Mathematical Social Science, Mathematics, Physica A, PLoS Computational Biology, Regional Studies, Revue Economique, Southern Economic Journal, Sustainability Science, Theory and Decision
Associate editor of
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2013-2016)
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination (2012-2023)
International Economic Review (2021-2025)
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2024-)
Member of Editorial Board
Experimental Economics (2022-)
Member of Scientific Board
Society for Experimental Finance (2022-)
Guest editor of special issues at
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination,
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Japanese Economic Review