Yosuke Yasuda

Yosuke Yasuda

Osaka Univ. | Professor Economics Design Inc. | Co-founder

Research

My research interests are Game Theory, Market Design, Industrial Organization, and Microeconomic Theory. I have published papers in top economics journals, including American Economic Review, AEJ: Microeconomics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, and RAND Journal of Economics, as well as leading journals in other fields such as AAMAS, Artificial Intelligence, and Scientific Reports.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Folk Theorem under Bankruptcy (with Carmen Bevia and Luis Corchon), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.112, June, 2024. WP
  2. Moral Hazard and Subjective Evaluation (with Shingo Ishiguro), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.209, April, 2023. WP New!
  3. Oligopolistic Equilibrium and Financial Constraints (with Carmen Bevia and Luis Corchon), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.51, Issue.1, pp.279-300, 2020. WP
  4. Bankruptcy is an Inevitable Fate of Repeated Investments with Leverage (with Momoka Nii, Takuya Okabe, Hiromu Ito, Satoru Moria, and Jin Yoshimura), Scientific Reports, Vol.9, #13745, 2019. Open Access
  5. Strategy-proof Matching with Regional Minimum and Maximum Quotas (with Masahiro Goto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yujiro Kawasaki, Ryoji Kurata, and Makoto Yokoo), Artificial Intelligence, Vol.235, pp.49-57, 2016. Open Access
  6. Expanding “Choice” in School Choice (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yeon-Koo Che), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.7, No.1, pp.1-42, 2015. WP
  7. Strategy-Proof Matching with Regional Minimum Quotas (with Masahiro Goto, Naoyuki Hashimoto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yujiro Kawasaki, and Makoto Yokoo), AAMAS2014 (Conference Proceedings, Full Paper), pp.1225-1232, 2014.
  8. Instability in the Hotelling’s Non-Price Spatial Competition Model, Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3, No.3a, pp.7-10, 2013. Open Access
  9. Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: The “Boston Mechanism” Reconsidered (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yeon-Koo Che), American Economic Review, Vol.101, No.1, pp.399-410, 2011. WP

Other Publications

  1. The Ultimate Objective of the Development Process—Pursuit of Material Wealth versus Societal Well-Being, in The World in 2050: Striving for a more just, prosperous, & harmonious global community, 2016.
  2. Comment on “Asian Participation and Performance at the Olympic Games,” Asian Economic Policy Review, Vol.11, No.1, pp.93-94, 2016. Open Access
  3. Essays in Theoretical Industrial Organization, Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, September, 2007.

Working Papers

  1. Anything Goes in Squid Game: Sequential Voting with Informed and Uninformed Voters (with Yuichiro Kamada), 2023. WP
    • Old version: Squid Voting Game: Rational Indecisiveness in Sequential Voting (with Yuichiro Kamada), 2022.
  2. Inspecting Cartels over Time: with and without Leniency Program (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve), 2022. WP
  3. Matching with Subjective and Objective Evaluations (with Yuanju Fang), 2021. WP
  4. Misalignment between Test Scores and Colleges’ Preferences: Chinese College Admission Reconsidered (with Yuanju Fang), 2021. WP
  5. A Lattice-Theoretical Optimization Approach to Nash Equilibria in Two-Person Games, 2021. WP
    • Old version: Reformulation of Nash Equilibrium with an Application to Interchangeability, 2015.
  6. On The Folk Theorem in Self-Sustained Communities (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve), 2021. WP – under review
    • Old version: The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Endogenous Termination, 2018. WP
  7. A Simple Economics of Inequality: Market Design Approach, 2017.
    • Old version: Competitive Market Achieves the Greatest Happiness of the Minimum Number, 2016. WP
  8. Exit Option Can Make Cooperation Easier (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve), 2015. WP
  9. Efficiency and Stability in Strategy-proof Matching Mechanisms under Regional Constraints (with Masahiro Goto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yujiro Kawasaki, and Makoto Yokoo), 2015.
    • Old version: Improving fairness and efficiency in matching markets with regional caps: priority-list based deferred acceptance mechanism, 2014. WP
  10. Selective Cooperation under Payoff Fluctuations (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve), 2013.
    • Old version: Collusion under Payoff Fluctuations, 2009. WP
  11. Repeated Cooperation with Outside Options (with Takako Fujiwara-Greve), 2011. WP
    • Old version: Cooperation in Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Outside Options, 2008.
  12. Understanding Stable Matchings: A Non-Cooperative Approach, (with Michihiro Kandori and Fuhito Kojima), 2008.
  13. The 40% Handicap Auction, 2006 (last revised 2008). WP
  14. The Theory of Collusion under Financial Constraints, 2006 (last revised 2007). WP

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