Research:

1. "Effort complementarity and role assignments in group contests," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming. (First online: February 21, 2024)
   
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   "Effort complementarity and allocation of resources and roles in group contests," September, 2021.
   Research Presentation:
   Public Finance Workshop at The University of Tokyo, presented on July 28, 2023. Paper on the website of the University of Tokyo.



2. "Prize allocation Rules in Generalized Contests," with Hideo Konishi (Boston Colledge) and Kaoru Ueda (Nanzan University) via the website of Hideo Konishi. (In progress.)



3. "Effort Complementarity and Sharing Rules in Group Contests," with Hideo Konishi (Boston College), Social Choice and Welfare 56 - 2, pp. 205 - 221, 2021. (First online: August 12, 2020)
   
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   "Effort Complementarity and Sharing Rules in Group Contests," with Hideo Konishi (Boston College) on Konishi's website.



4. "Gerrymandering in a hierarchical legislature," with Attila Tasnádi (Corvinus University of Budapest), Theory and Decision 87 - 2, pp. 253 - 279, 2019. (First online: May 7, 2019)
   
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   Working Paper Corvinus Economics Working Papers (CEWP) No. 19/2014, 2014.
   Revised Paper for JEA 2013 spring meeting on this website.
   Discussion Paper No. 617 in Corvinus Research Archive, 2012, on the website of Corvinus University of Budapest.
   Research Presentation:
   Keio Economic Society Seminar with Japanese Society for Mathematical Economics, Keio University on May 26, 2014.
   Japanese Economic Association, 2013 spring meeting at Toyama University on June 22, 2013. JEA's Website in Japanese.



5. "Step-by-step group contests with group-specific public-good prizes," Economics of Governance 20 - 2, pp. 183 - 204, 2019. (First online: March 18, 2019)
   
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   Research Presentation:
   Japanese Economic Association, 2017 autumn meeting at Aoyama Gakuin University on September 9, 2017. JEA's Website in Japanese. (Old Title: "Research grants competitions: step-by-step group contests with group-specific public-good prizes.")



6. "Endogenous Party Structure," with Hideo Konishi (Boston College), Economics of Governance 17 - 4, pp. 317 - 351, 2016. (First online: October 17, 2015)
   
   (Old Title: "A Model of Two Party Representative Democracy: Endogenous Party Formation".)
   Working Paper on the website of Boston College.
   Research Presentation:
   Corvinus Game Theory Seminar, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary on March 26, 2012.
   Japanese Economic Association, 2011 spring meeting at Kumamoto Gakuen University on May 21, 2011.
   Keio Economic Society Seminar, Keio University on April 6, 2011.



7. "Incentives for Improving the Public Budget Balance in Local Governments and Resident Migration," (in English), Journal of International Economics Studies (The Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University), No. 25, pp. 63 - 80, 2011.
   
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   "The Incentive for Reducing the Expenditures in Local Governments and Resident Migration" (in English), Working paper No.129, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, 2007.



8. "Assemblies of Japanese Local Governments for Governance" (in Japanese), Y. Suzuki ed. Comparative Analysis of Governance: A Game/Contract Theoretical Approach, Ch. 6, Hosei University Press, 2010.



9. "Fiscal Relations between Central and Local Governments in China and the Concepts of "Contract" and "Contest" : A Contract Theoretical Analysis of Development Governance." (in Japanese) with Y. Suzuki, Y. Suzuki ed. Comparative Analysis of Governance: A Game/Contract Theoretical Approach, Ch. 7, Hosei University Press, 2010.



10. "Efficient Management of the Japanese Public Sector - A Survey," (in Japanese), Keizai Shirin (The Hosei University Economic Review), Hosei University, Vol.74, No.4, pp.87 - 112, 2007.



11. "The Progressive Reduction of Expenditures in Local Governments and Resident Migration," (in Japanese) Keizai Shirin (The Hosei University Economic Review), Hosei University, Vol.74, No.4, pp.45 - 65, 2007.
    
    Research Presentation:
    Japan Institute of Public Finance, 2004 annual meeting at Tohoku Gakuin University on October 30, 2004.



12. "Information Gathering and Information Transmission between Departments," (in Japanese), Keizai Shirin (The Hosei University Economic Review), Hosei University, Vol.72, No.1-2, pp.357 - 394, 2004.
    
    Research Presentation:
    Japanese Economic Association, 2001 autumn meeting at Hitotsubashi University on October 7, 2001.



13. "Local Allocation Tax and Management of Local Governments: Soft Budget Problems Caused by Discretionary Financial Resources" (in Japanese), Kokumin Keizai (National Economy), Research Institute on the National Economy, No.166, 2003.
    
    Research Presentation:
    Japanese Economic Association, 2002 autumn meeting at Hiroshima University on October 14, 2002.



14. "The Cost of Amakudari: The Movement of Retired Japanese Bureaucrats to Public Corporations," (in Japanese), The Keizai Gaku (Annual Report of the Economic Society), Tohoku University, Vol.62, No.2, pp. 341 - 356, 2000.
    
    Research Presentation:
    Japanese Economic Association, 1999 autumn meeting at the University of Tokyo on October 16, 1999.

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Last update: March 13, 2024.