Last update: November 5, 2024

Takaaki Abe

  Lecturer (full-time), School of Economics, Kyushu University

  Ph.D. in Economics

Research Interests

  Game theory, Theoretical economics

Working Papers

• Deterring Over-declaration of Essential Patents through Random Assessments, Declaration Fees, and Royalty Sharing (with Emiko Fukuda, Shigeo Muto)

• Fair Allocation in Hierarchies: A Compromise between Marginalism and Egalitarianism (with David Lowing, Satoshi Nakada)

• Core Thresholds of Symmetric Majority Voting Games

• Patent Pool Formation between Rival Standards (with Emiko Fukuda, Shigeo Muto)

• The Permission-Owen Value: Axiomatization and Application to Liability Situations (with David Lowing, Satoshi Nakada, Kevin Techer)

Publications

• Second-price Auctions with Information Acquisition Costs (with Tsuyoshi Onda, Takehiko Yamato), Economic Theory Bulletin, forthcoming, 2024 [doi:10.1007/s40505-024-00277-7]

• Patent Package Structures and Sharing Rules for Royalty Revenue (with Emiko Fukuda, Shigeo Muto), Social Choice and Welfare 63:277-297, 2024 [doi:10.1007/s00355-024-01532-3]

• Equal Surplus Sharing Values for Games with Coalition Structures, Economics Letters 240:111775, 2024 [doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111775]

• The In-group Egalitarian Owen Values (with Satoshi Nakada), Games and Economic Behavior 142:1-16, 2023 [doi:10.1016/j.geb.2023.07.013]

• Potentials and Solutions of Cooperative Games with a Fixed Player Set  (with Satoshi Nakada), International Journal of Game Theory 52:757-774, 2023 [doi:10.1007/s00182-023-00839-2]

• Core Stability of the Shapley Value for Cooperative Games  (with Satoshi Nakada), Social Choice and Welfare 60:523-543, 2023 [doi:10.1007/s00355-022-01432-4]

• Stable Coalition Structures and Power Indices for Majority Voting, Journal of Public Economic Theory 24:1413-1432, 2022 [doi:10.1111/jpet.12574]

• Stable Coalition Structures: Characterizations and Applications of Hart and Kurz's Four Stability Concepts, Communications in Economics and Mathematical Sciences 1:38-66, 2022 [doi:10.50906/cems.1.0_38]

• Buck-passing Dumping in a Garbage-dumping Game, Theory and Decision 93:509-533, 2022 [doi:10.1007/s11238-021-09858-5]

• Invitation Games: An Experimental Approach to Coalition Formation (with Taro Shinoda and Yukihiko Funaki), GAMES 12:64, 2021 [doi:10.3390/g12030064]

• The Unbinding Core for Coalitional Form Games (with Yukihiko Funaki), Mathematical Social Sciences 113:39-42, 2021 [doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2021.04.007]

• The Projective Core of Symmetric Games with Externalities (with Yukihiko Funaki), International Journal of Game Theory 50:167-183, 2021 [doi:10.1007/s00182-020-00745-x]

• Stability and Values for Games with Coalition Structures, Economics Letters 200:109750, 2021 [doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109750]

• Cartel Formation in Cournot Competition with Asymmetric Costs: A Partition Function Approach, GAMES 12:14, 2021 [doi:10.3390/g12010014]

• Population Monotonic Allocation Schemes for Games with Externalities, International Journal of Game Theory 49:97-117, 2020 [doi:10.1007/s00182-019-00675-3]

• Axiomatizations of Coalition Aggregation Functions, Mathematical Social Sciences 103:69-75, 2020 [doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2019.12.001]

• Monotonic Core Allocation Paths for Assignment Games (with Shuige Liu), Social Choice and Welfare 53:557-573, 2019 [doi:10.1007/s00355-019-01197-3]

• Decomposing a Balanced Game: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Nonemptiness of the Core, Economics Letters 176:9-13, 2019 [doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.12.009]

• The Weighted-egalitarian Shapley Values (with Satoshi Nakada), Social Choice and Welfare 52(2):197-213, 2019 [doi:10.1007/s00355-018-1143-3]

• Stable Coalition Structures in Symmetric Majority Games: A Coincidence between Myopia and Farsightedness, Theory and Decision 85:353-374, 2018 [doi:10.1007/s11238-018-9655-y]

• Consistency and the Core in Games with Externalities, International Journal of Game Theory 47(1):133-154, 2018 [doi:10.1007/s00182-017-0581-y]

• Monotonic Redistribution: Reconciling Performance-based Allocation and Weighted Division (with Satoshi Nakada), International Game Theory Review 19(4):1750022, 2017 [doi:10.1142/S0219198917500220]

• The Non-Emptiness of the Core of a Partition Function Form Game (with Yukihiko Funaki), International Journal of Game Theory 46(3):715-736, 2017 [doi:10.1007/s00182-016-0554-6]

Notes

Research Grants

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Co-Investigator (No.24K04776, April 2024-March 2027)

• Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal Investigator (No.22K13362, April 2022-March 2025)

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Co-Investigator (No.22H00829, April 2022-March 2027)

• Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Principal Investigator (No.19K23206, April 2019-March 2021)

• Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (DC1, No.16J00035, April 2016-March 2019)

Awards

• Seiichi Tejima Research Awards 2023 (Fujino-Nakamura Young Researcher Award), Tokyo Institute of Technology

• Azusa Ono Memorial Award 2017, Waseda University

• Kanematsu Fellowship 2017 (with Satoshi Nakada), Kobe University

• Iijima Prize 2016, Waseda Univesity

• Azusa Ono Memorial Award 2015, Waseda University

Presentations

• Farsighted stable sets for hedonic games with externalities, Game Theory Seminar on Patent-pool Formation and Hedonic Games, Institute of Science Tokyo, November, 2024

• Deterring Over-declaration of Essential Patents through Random Assessments, Declaration Fees, and Royalty Sharing, The 17th Joint Conference by Kyushu University, Renmin University of China, and Nanjing University, Renmin University, Beijing, September, 2024

• Deterring Over-declaration of Essential Patents through Random Assessments, Declaration Fees, and Royalty Sharing, SING19, University of Franche-Comté, France, July, 2024

• Games with Hypergraphs and Sharing Rules for Royalty Revenue, Waseda Game Theory and Experimental Economics Workshop, Waseda Univeristy, January, 2024

• Sharing rules, royalty revenue, and hypergraph function form games, Tokyo-Tech Winter Seminar on Game Theory 2024, Tokyo Institute of Technology, January, 2024

• Second-price Auctions with Information Acquisition Costs, Komazawa Microeconomics Workshop, Komazawa University, December, 2023

• Core Thresholds of Symmetric Majority Voting Games, Japanese Economic Association, Kansai University, Semptember, 2023

• Patent Package Structures and Sharing Rules for Royalty Revenue, Summer Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Economics 2023, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Semptember, 2023

• Patent Pool Formation as a Social Dilemma, Summer Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Economics 2022, Keio University, Japan, September, 2022

• Incompatibility between Stability and Boundedness of Power in Multi-group Voting Games, SWET2022, Otaru, Japan, August, 2022

• Incompatibility between Stability and Boundedness of Power in Multi-group Voting Games, Komazawa Microeconomics Workshop, Komazawa University, August, 2022

• Trade-off between Equality and Stability in Multi-group Voting Games, SING17, University of Padova (online), Italy, July, 2022 

• Trade-off between Equality and Stability in Multi-group Voting Games, Kansai Game Theory Workshop, Osaka University of Economics, Japan, June, 2022 

• Trade-off between Equality and Stability in Multi-group Voting Games, Japanese Economic Association, Yokohama National University (online), Japan, May, 2022 

• Stable Coalition Structures and Power Indices for Majority Voting, East Asian Game Theory Conference 2021, online, China, April, 2021

• Stable Coalition Structures and Power Indices for Majority Voting, Japan Association of Political Economy, online, Japan, March, 2021

• Stable Coalition Structures and Power Indices for Majority Voting, Summer Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Economics 2020 (Co-organized by CEFM project), online, September, 2020

• Buck-passing Dumping in a Pure Exchange Game of Bads, Keio Microeconomics Workshop, Keio University (online), Japan, July, 2020

• Buck-passing Dumping in a Pure Exchange Game of Bads, Japanese Economic Association, Kyushu University (online), Japan, May, 2020

• Stable Dumping Strategies in a Pure Exchange Game of Bads, CREST Workshop in Experimental Economics, Ecole polytechnique, France, November, 2019

• Axiomatizations of Coalition Aggregation Functions, Japanese Economic Association, Kobe University, Japan, October, 2019

• Axiomatizations of Coalition Aggregation Functions, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2019, Sendai, Japan, August, 2019

• Axiomatizations of Coalition Aggregation Functions, WINPEC Microeconomics Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 2019

• Stable Coalition Structures: Characterizations and Applications of Hart and Kurz's Four Stability Concepts, EAGT2019, Fuzhou University, China, March, 2019

• Monotonic Core Allocation Paths for Assignment Games, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2018, Fukuoka, Japan, August, 2018

• Population Monotonic Allocation Schemes for Games with Externalities, SAET2018, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, June, 2018

• Population Monotonic Allocation Schemes for Games with Externalities, Japanese Economic Association, University of Hyogo, Japan, June, 2018

• Stable Coalition Structures in Symmetric Majority Games, Workshop on Microeconomics and Game Theory, Kyoto University, Japan, September, 2017

• Stable Coalition Structures in Symmetric Majority Games, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2017, Hokkaido, Japan, August, 2017

• The Unbinding Core for Coalitional Form Games, EAGT2017, National University of Singapore, Singapore, July, 2017

• The Unbinding Core for Coalitional Form Games, SING13, Paris Dauphine University, France, July, 2017

• Hedonic Games with Externalities, Japanese Economic Association, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, June, 2017

• Hedonic Games with Externalities, MARS2017, Jean-Monnet University, France, March, 2017 (Invited)

• Efficiency and the Core in Games with Positive and Negative Externalities, Japanese Economic Association, Waseda University, Japan, September, 2016

• Efficiency and the Core in Games with Positive and Negative Externalities, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2016, Seoul National University, Korea, August, 2016

• Efficiency and the Core in Games with Positive and Negative Externalities, SING12, Unversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark, July, 2016

• Partition Function Form Games with Subjective Expectation Formation Rules, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2015, Shizuoka, Japan, August, 2015

• A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Non-emptiness of the Core of a Partition Function Form Game, EAGT2015, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2015

• Axiomatic Characterizations of Expectation Functions for Coalition Formation, Japan Association of Political Economy, Waseda University, Japan, March, 2015

• A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Non-emptiness of the Core of a Partition Function Form Game, TCER Workshop, Waseda University, Japan, March, 2015

• Characterization of the Core in Partition Function Form by Bondareva-Shapley Condition, Summer Workshop on Game Theory 2014, Nagano, Japan, August, 2014

Teaching

• Applied Microeconomics (graduate), Kyushu University [Spring 2023]

• Applied Microeconomics, Kyushu University [Spring 2023]

• Microeconomics, Kyushu University [Fall (3Q, 4Q) 2023]

• Game Theory and Experiment, Gakusyuin University [Spring & Fall 2022, Spring & Fall 2023]

• Game Theory (graduate, English), Waseda University [Summer 2023]

• Experimental Economics, Tokyo Tech [Fall 2021]

• Microeconomics, Tokyo Tech [Fall 2021]

• Game Theory, Komazawa University [Spring & Fall 2021, Spring & Fall 2022]

• Mathematics for Economics (graduate, English), Waseda University [Spring 2021]

• Introduction to Macroeconomics, Waseda University [Fall 2019, Fall 2020]

• Introduction to Microeconomics, Waseda University [Spring 2019]

Others

• Kyushu University News, Features (Interview), "Game Theory for Integrative Knowledge"  EN  JP

• Collaborative Platform in Research and Education on Humanities and Social Sciences "Through the Lens of Game Theory"  JP

• Workshop Collection in Fukuoka 2024, Special Lecture for Elementary School Students JP

Reviews

• Applied Sciences

• Dynamic Games and Applications

• Fuzzy Sets and Systems

• Games

• Games and Economic Behavior

• International Game Theory Review

• International Journal of Game Theory

• International Journal of Economic Theory

• Journal of Economic Theory

• Journal of Mathematical Economics

• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research

• Mathematical Social Sciences

• Mathematics

• Operations Research Letters

• Social Choice and Welfare

• The Manchester School