I am Takahiro Moriya.

I am a Project Assistant Professor at Department of Economics and The University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD) at The University of Tokyo.

Research Fields:

Labor Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory.

Education:

2025, Ph.D.  in Economics, Stony Brook University. 

Main Advisor,  Steven Stern.  Co-Advisor, Ting Liu.

2016, M.A. in Economics, Osaka University.

2014, B.A.  in Economics, Osaka University.

Working Paper:

1. Sustainability of Economy: Existence and Optimality under Overlapping-Generations General Equilibrium Framework with Satiation and Fiat Money (with Ken Urai and Hiromi Murakami), 2024 . 

      : Pure micro theory , submitted.

2. Search in Credence Goods Markets  (with Ting Liu), 2024. 

    :  Applied micro theory  (IO).

3. Advances in Communication Technology and the Marriage Market: A Non-stationary Two-sided Search Model,  2025 .

  :   Structural labor, 

・ This paper  is  selected as a conference paper representing North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting 2024  by Econometric Society.

・Excellence award for 19th Applied Econometrics conference at U of Tokyo.

 ・ This paper  is  selected as a conference paper representing European  Econometric Society Winter  Meeting 2024  by Econometric Society.

・ This paper  is  selected as a conference paper representing World Congress of  Econometric Society 2025  by Econometric Society

4. Covenant Marriage  (with Steven Stern), 2025. 

: Applied micro theory  (Labor), submitted.
・ This paper was presented at 2026 CSW Asia Meeting (Main) of the Econometric Society

・This paper was presented at 2025 European Econometric Society Meeting

5.  Identifying Spousal Cooperation from Equilibrium Comparative Statics: A Biform Game Application, 2026.
:   Structural labor
・This paper will be presented at  2026 North American Summer Meeting  of the Econometric Society

  ・ This paper will be presented at 2026 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, East & Southeast Asia

・This paper will be presented at 2026 Meeting of the Society of Economics of the Household 

Work in progress:

5. Estimating a Model of Coalition Formation: The Case of Ready-Mixed Concrete Unions  (with Masato Nishiwaki), 2024. 

:Structural IO

6. Firm Learning and Asymmetric Information (with  Yang Xuan), 2024.

:Structural labor

7. Shapley Value with Econometric applications (with Pradeep Dubey), 2024.

:Pure micro theory

8. Dynamic Effect of Health Shock using Kalman Filter Approach (With Robert Millard), 2024.

:Structural Labor

9. When Do We Achieve Our Highest Potential? Network Formulation Approach (with Sofia Ruiz-Palazuelos), 2024.

:Applied micro theory (Labor)

10. Dynamics of public opinion (with Sandro Brusco), 2025.

      : Pure micro theory

11. Search and Matching (with Kenzo Imamura), 2025.

: Pure micro theory

12. Dynamic pricing (with Tong Li,  Hidenori Takahashi), 2025.

:Structural IO

Contact: 

Department of Economics, The University of Tokyo

takahiro.moriya[at]e.u-tokyo[dot]ac.jp

Last update:

March , 2026