Wataru Kitano

Email: wataru.kitano9998[at]gmail.com

Address: 1-11-2 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO 102-0071, JAPAN

Research Interests:
Information Design, Economics of Privacy, Decision Theory, Social Choice Theory, Cooperative Game Theory

Education:

• MA in Management, Graduate School of Management, Tokyo University of Science, 2024

• BA in Management, School of Management, Tokyo University of Science, 2022

Publications

1.  Information Quality in Sequential Persuasion, 2025, Economics Letters, Volume 254, 112452. Link 

   • The previous version was titled 'Does Inviting New Senders Improve the Quality of Information?: A Robust Approach'.

Working Papers

1. On the Possibility of Strategic Ignorance in Sequential Persuasion, with Satoshi Nakada, 2025. Link 

   • The previous version was titled 'A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Intentional Disregard under Sequential Persuasion'. Link

2. Consumer Privacy Protection: Service Personalization and Data Disclosure, 2025. Link 

Works in Progress

1. A model of robust Bayesian persuasion, with Shohei Yanagita.

2. Fair allocations of joint and sequential team production, with David Lowing and Satoshi Nakada.

Upcoming Presentations

1. May 2026: Economic Theory Workshop (Hitotsubashi University)

2. May 2026: Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (Osaka Metropolitan University)

3. March 2026: Spring Meeting of the Operations Research Society of Japan (Reitaku University)

Presentations

1. September 2025: Japanese Economic Association Autumn Meeting (Hirosaki University)

2. August 2025: Waseda Workshop on Game Theory and Experiment (Waseda University)

3. June 2025: Oligo Workshop (University of Cambridge)

4. July 2024: European Meeting on Game Theory (University of Franche-Comté)

5. May 2024: Japanese Economic Association Spring Meeting (Tokyo Keizai University)

6. September 2023: Summer Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Economics (Institute of Science Tokyo)

7. June 2023: Oligo Workshop (University of Padova)

8. December 2022: Communication and Persuasion Workshop (Waseda University)

9. October 2022: DC Conference (University of Tokyo)

10. September 2022: Summer Workshop on Game Theory and Experimental Economics (Keio University)

11. July 2022: European Meeting on Game Theory (University of Padova, Online)