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Welcome to the homepage of
YOSUKE YASUDA
Last
updated: July 10, 2009 I am
an Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
(GRIPS). Before joining GRIPS,
I graduated from the University
of Tokyo, and received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Princeton University. |
PERSONAL DATA
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Full name: |
Yosuke Yasuda |
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Position: |
Assistant
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Affiliation: |
National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) |
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7-22-1 Roppongi,
Minato-ku, |
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C-911 |
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(+81)
3-6439-6185 |
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(+81)
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=658566
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Office Hours: |
By appointment |
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Research Fields: |
Game Theory,
Industrial Organization |
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February 20,
1980 |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
· National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
o Assistant Professor, August 2007-
· Virtual Center
for Advanced Studies in Institution (VCASI)
o Fellow, September 2008-
· Agency
for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
(METI)
o Research Fellow, August 2008-
· Mobile
Society Research Institute, NTT DOCOMO
o Research Fellow, September 2007-
· Fair
Trade Commission of
o Graduate Student Fellow, Summer 2004
· Research
Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
o Lecturer, Summer 2004
COURSES
· 2008-9
o Game Theory (Winter, web, syllabus)
o Advanced Microeconomics I (Spring 1st, web,
syllabus)
o Advanced Microeconomics II (Spring 2nd, web,
syllabus)
· 2007-8
o Game Theory (Winter, web, syllabus)
o Advanced Microeconomics I (Spring 1st, web, syllabus)
o Advanced Microeconomics II (Spring 2nd, web, syllabus)
RESEARCH
· Working Papers
o [6]
Understanding Stable Matchings: A Non-Cooperative Approach (with Michihiro
Kandori and Fuhito
Kojima) preliminary
draft available on request
o [5] Cooperation
in Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Outside Options (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve)
o [4]
Expanding
“Choice” in School Choice (with Atila
Abdulkadiroğlu and Yeon-Koo
Che)
o [3]
The Theory
of Collusion under Financial Constraints
o [2]
The 40%
Handicap Auction
· Work
in Progress (all titles are tentative)
o Cooperation in
Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Perturbed Payoffs (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve)
o Information Acquisition in Standard
Auctions (with Jinwoo
Kim)
o Matching
with Testing (with Yeon-Koo Che
and Jinwoo Kim)
o Rational Consumers: A New Approach on the
Bertrand Model with Capacity Constraints
o Inefficiency in Designing a Private
Industry
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Published Papers and Books
o “Linear Functions and Market Mechanism” and
“Quadratic Functions and Monopoly/Oligopoly Markets,” Chapters 1 and 2 in
‘Mathematics in Economics’ (October 2008), Nihonhyoronsha (in Japanese)
o “Does Mobile Value Change Society?,”
Chapter 3 in ‘Mobile Value Business’ (October 2008), Chuokeizaisha (with Koichi
Yano, in Japanese)
o Essays in Theoretical Industrial
Organization, Ph.D. Thesis (September 2007),
o [1]
Optimal Entry Regulation by Auctions: A Theory of Optimal Entry Auctions, The Journal of Social Science, Vol. 55,
No. 3-4 (March 2004), pp. 121-138 (in Japanese).
· Japanese
Non-academic Articles
o A Survey on Matching – Market Design (with Fuhito Kojima), Keizaiseminar, April-May 2009
o Hyperbolic Discounting: People are
Naturally Myopic (with Ayako Hirono), Nikkei
Business Management, Spring 2009, pp. 17-18.
o Economic Analysis on School Choice, Economist, January 13, 2009, pp. 46-49.
o Signaling Theory: WUITTON and Education
Play the Same Role (with Ayako Hirono), Nikkei
Business Management, Winter 2008, pp. 8-9.
o Matching Theory: Algorithm Can Choose Your
Boss (with Ayako Hirono), Nikkei Business
Management, Fall 2008, pp. 10-11.
o Mechanism Design with an Application to
Speed-Dating, Weekly Diamond, July 5,
2008.
o Game Theory: Similarity between Stores’
Location Choice and Political Competition, Nikkei
Business Management, Summer 2008, pp. 17-19.
o Lecture on Economy: A Survey on Market
Design, The Nikkei, June 5, 2008, pp.
25. (link
to the first draft)
o Switching Costs: Points Make Customers
Worse Off, Nikkei Business Management,
Spring 2008, pp. 17-19.
o A
Key Word is “Nash Equilibrium”: 5 Books for Introducing Game Theory, Nikkei Business Associe, May 16, 2006,
pp. 72-73 (final draft).
o Economic
Perspectives on FTA: Comment to Column No. 0163, RIETI (link
to the article), 2004.
· Awards
and Fellowships
o Grant-in-Aid for Science Research, Start-up
(#20830024: “On Desirable Design of School Choice Mechanisms: Matching Theory
Approach”), 2008-2010
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o Valedictorian of the Department of
Economics,
o Ouchi Hyoe Prize (for my bachelor thesis),
March 2002
PRESENTATIONS
· 2009
o Contract Theory Workshop, Kyoto University,
July [TBA]
o Waseda University, April [4]
o *IIOC, Boston, April [2] (with discussant)
o ITPU International Workshop, March (with
panel discussion)
o Workshop on Mechanism Design of Information
Network, January [4]
o University of Edinburgh, January [6]
o *SGPE Peebles PhD Conference, January [2]
· 2008
o Toyama University, December [4]
o Search Theory Workshop, December [4]
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o Institute for Monetary and Economic
Studies, Bank of
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o GRIPS Policy Modeling Workshop, September
[4]
o *Japanese Economic Association Fall
Meeting,
o *EARIE08: The 35th Conference of the
European Association for Research in Industrial Economics,
o *The 63rd Econometric Society European Meeting,
o GRIPS School-wide Seminar, July [based on
4]
o *GAMES2008: Third Congress of the Game
Theory Society, North Western U., July [3]
o *The 6th Annual International Industrial
Organization Conference (session chair and discussant as well as presenter),
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· 2007
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o HKUST, December [3]
o Contract Theory Workshop East, December [4]
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o *The 22nd Meeting of the European Economic
Association,
o *2007 KES/Yonsei
Mini-Conference in Microeconomics,
August [2]
o *Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society,
o *North American Summer
Meeting of the Econometric Society,
· 2006
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o *The 61st
Econometric Society European Meeting,
o *Japanese Economic Association Spring
Meeting,
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· Before
2006
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* : Conference Presentations
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
· Conference
Organizing
o DC conference, August 2, 2009
o GRIPS international workshop “Frontiers of Game
Theory: Global Games” joint with Daisuke Oyama, June 7-8, 2008
· Teaching Experience
o Game Theory (advanced under graduate level)
o Advanced Microeconomics I (Ph.D. level)
o Advanced Microeconomics II (Ph.D. level)
· Teaching
Assistantship
o Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical
Approach by Stephen Morris,
Spring 2007
o Microeconomics for First year Ph.D.
students by Dilip Abreu and Jose Scheinkman, Spring 2005
· Research
Assistantship
o Professor Patrick Bolton, Summer
2006
o Professor Dilip Abreu, Fall 2004
· Other
Research Experience
o Visiting Scholar (University of Edinburgh),
January 2009
o Exchange
Scholar Program (
o The
16th
o Summer
Workshop on the Economics of IT (NYU Stern), June 15-17, 2005
· Refereeing
o Econometrica
o Economics Letters
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o Journal of European Economic Association
· Academic
Affiliations
o Econometric Society (2003-)
o American Economic Association (2005-)
o European Economic Association (2007-)
o Industrial Organization Society (2008-)
o Game Theory Society (2008-)
o Japanese Economic Association (2008-)
