Associate Professor in Economics Stanford Graduate School of Business; PhD in Economics from Princeton; former visiting professor at Princeton, Wharton and Yale
received JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Prize. Thank you to the Japanese Economic Association for the nomination, and to my coauthors for the collaboration.
A cool part of it is to prepare the lecture material for the emperor family about my own research.
One thing to add about this year's Nobel prize in economics: a lot of Japanese economists around my age are greatly influenced by Michi Kandori at UTokyo, whose adviser is Paul Milgrom (and Paul's adviser is Bob Wilson).
We'll tweet about Japanese econ job candidates on the 2023 job market! This is an initiative by a few volunteers of Japanese economists (started last year). We were helped by many senior Japanese colleagues when we were juniors/grad students.
We (Yuichiro Kamada, Toshihiko Mukoyama, and I) will tweet about Japanese job candidates! This is an initiative by a few volunteers of Japanese economists. We were helped by many senior Japanese colleagues when we were juniors/grad students.
The paper with Alex Wolitzky about anonymous games with incomplete information is conditionally accepted at AER!
6 months from the first submission; really appreciate the timely decision of the editor and referees.
We'll tweet about Japanese job candidates! This is an initiative by a few volunteers of Japanese economists. We were helped by many senior Japanese colleagues when we were juniors/grad students. To pay it forward and increase the visibility of young Japanese economists, We'll 1/4
A lot of US Ph.D. programs in economics cover general equilibrium theory in the fall, and then now are transitioning to game theory. This follows the order of historical events, and Bob Wilson's Nobel lecture articulates this transition really well:
This is very interesting. In Japan, the engine is randomly assigned for the speed boat racers. Those initially assigned good engines perform better later, and the difference persists for a long time. The initial.luck may play an important role to determine "merit" later.
Tomorrow, at ASSA, there is a panel called "The Associate Editors of Econometrica: Promising Directions in Economic Theory." It will be a useful session, especially for young researchers interested in theory (I have to miss since I will be teaching).
One state has snow plows. The other doesn’t.
One side of this street is Texarkana, Arkansas.
The other side is Texarkana, Texas.
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
There is a leadership failure in Texas...
My daughter likes to rip off leaves from plants (we try to stop her, but she does it anyway...) and then ask us to broom them. I started to call her Keynesian 😄
(I heard through the grapevine that) Melissa Dell is searching for Japanese-speaking predocs. I do not know her directly, but her research is excellent. I believe this is an excellent opportunity.
Nobel prize prediction:
I will be very happy if it goes to Kreps, Milgrom, & Wilson. My prediction is Angrist and Card (given the background of this year's prize committee).
菊池さんと山岸さんの動画を見ました。僕も山岸さんと同じPrinceton出身ということで色々共感できました。Princetonは特にbig paperを狙わせる雰囲気が強いと思います。僕は書くことから学ぶことも多いのでone idea one paperで書いていくのも良いと思います
@ats_yamagishi
@ShinnKikuchi_JP
SITE Dynamic Games, Contracts, and Markets will be on from this coming Monday: Everything is online and open to everybody (you have to register beforehand). Hope to see you there!
Feel that more real collaboration between epidemiologists and economists is needed. Economists are good at thinking about the impact of health measures on economy and people's incentives (how to change the behavior), but we do not know the basics of virus transmission.
@mph_for_doctors
このペースでワクチン接種が進んだ場合、近い将来社会としてどれだけのBreak through infectionのリスクを取れるかを議論する際、ワクチンがLong Covidを防ぐのか、というのは結構大事なんじゃないかという気がします。でも、英語文献を含めデータをあまり見ない気がします。
A new model explains the feedback loop between
#monopolies
and politicians and the unexpected developments in the relationships between the two, as well as the importance for
#antitrust
and competition. By
@DFoarta
, Steven Callander, and
@takuo_sugaya
SAET is canceled. I decided to have a Zoom session for my own session this coming Friday and next Friday (this is a completely independent thing from the society). Details can be found at
In-person meeting rescheduled due to rain (in CA, we cannot meet students inside of the building--wearing a mask and being outside are required--, and outside seating does not work if it rains).
My computer mouse got broken. Come to think of it, this is what I bought when I first got a cubicle office in the basement of Princeton as a Ph.D. student. More than 10 years ago...
included (or if we missed you). Of course, tweets are personal and don't mean endorsement by any institutions. Being on this list does not reflect any regional preference of the candidate. We've also created a website with the list: 4/4
Had a nice dinner over Zoom with my U Tokyo master program classmates
@MitsuruIgami_JP
and
@Chanman_ECON
. I was lucky that I was a part of a hard working and friendly cohort at the early stage of my career.
I have a mixed feeling about this. In CA, people in the education sector are eligible, but I personally do not want to use this privilege to hold a party while there is supply shortage. If our priority comes from education, we should use it only for education related purposes.
Breaking News: Fully vaccinated people can have small gatherings indoors with other vaccinated people but should continue to wear masks in public, the CDC said.
Given that some of us still prefer to take precautions, it seems to me that rather than mixing all people in the aircraft, it is better if airlines make some areas of the aircraft mask-mandated and let people choose. They can adjust the size of the area based on the demand.
It was great to present this paper, joint work with my colleagues Steve Callander and Takuo Sugaya (
@takuo_sugaya
),
@cepr_org
VIOS last week.
A paper summary below.