Research

Working Papers:

• When do firms sell high durability products? The case of Light Bulb Industry [slide]

• Fast and simple inner-loop algorithms of static / dynamic BLP estimations, arXiv:2404.04494, 2024. [code]

• The Use of Symmetry for Models with Variable-size Variables, arXiv:2311.08650, 2023.

• Long-run Effect of a Merger and Its Remedial Standards (joint with Hiroshi Ohashi), RIETI Discussion Paper Series 23-E-001,2023.  [slide]

• Firm's static behavior under dynamic demand, RIEB Discussion Paper Series No.2022-19, 2022. (Awarded runner-up of 25th Moriguchi Prize, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.) [slide]

• Consumer preference for durability and energy efficiency: Welfare Analysis of Light Bulb Market, 2021.

• Structural Estimation of Furusato Nozei, RIEB Discussion Paper Series No.2020-J13, 2020.  (In Japanese; Awarded Kanematsu prize, Kobe University) [slide]

• Effect of Municipal Merger on Economic Activity (In Japanese; Awarded Mitsuishi Prize, Lightstone Corp.) 

Publication: 

• The biases in applying static demand models under dynamic demand, Review of Industrial Organization, 2024. [Online Appendix] [slide]

• Intergovernmental competition for donations: The case of the Furusato Nozei program in Japan  (with E. Fukasawa, H. Ogawa), Journal of Asian Economics, 2020