Department of Economics
Boston College
Tel:
(617)-552-1209
Fax: (617)-552-2308
Email: hideo.konishi@bc.edu
CV
Research
Coauthors in Published Papers
I am an
applied microeconomic/game theorist with strong interests in public economics, urban
economics, international trade, and industrial organization. A lot of my work
is on applications of theory of formation of groups, coalitions, and social
networks.
Selected Publications
Here, I list selected publications of mine. All published papers
including others are listed on my vita, which can be downloaded from CV. If you do not have
access to a journal and would like a reprint of a published paper, please email
me at hideo.konishi@bc.edu.
1.
Tiebout's Tale in Spatial Economies:
Entrepreneurship, Self-Selection and Efficiency,
Regional Science and
Urban Economics 38, 461-471, (2008), (special issue in honor of
Masahisa Fujita).
Abstract
2.
Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many
Matching Problems, (with M.Utku Unver),
Journal of Economic
Theory 129, 57-80, (2006). Abstract
3. Concentration of Competing Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 488-512,
(2005). Abstract
4. Coalition Formation as a Dynamic Process, Journal of Economic Theory 110, 1-41,
(with Debraj Ray), (2003). Abstract
5. Core in a Simple Coalition Formation Game, Social Choice and Welfare 18, 135-153,
(with Suryapratim Banerjee and Tayfun Sonmez), (2001).
Abstract
6. Formation of Hub Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and
Population Agglomeration,
Journal of
Urban Economics 48, 1-28, (2000). A longer version Abstract
7. Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium in a Group Formation Game with
Positive Externality,
Games and
Economic Behavior 21, 161-182, (with Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber),
(1997). Abstract
8. Voting with Ballots and Feet: Existence of Equilibrium in a
Local Public Good Economy,
Journal of
Economic Theory 68, 480-509, (1996). Abstract
9. A Pareto-Improving Commodity Tax Reform under a Smooth Nonlinear
Income Tax,
Journal of
Public Economics 56, 413-446, (1995). Abstract
Recent Research Papers
Pdf files of unpublished papers can be downloaded. I have divided
the work into areas.
Public
Economics/ Urban Economics
1. Market for
Clubs with Congestible Facilities: Nonlinear-Pricing Equilibria with Entrepreneurial
Managers. clubnotesjunk1.pdf
(a preliminary
version: comments welcome)
2. Contributing
or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy, (with Taiji
Furusawa). free_riding_proof_core1.pdf
3.
Tiebout's Tale in Spatial Economies:
Entrepreneurship, Self-Selection and Efficiency,
Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 461-471, (2008), (special issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita).
4.
Carpooling and Congestion Pricing: HOV
and HOT Lanes, (with Se-il Mun). hovhot1019.pdf
Matching
and Network
1. Games of
Capacity Manipulations in Hospital-Intern Markets, (with M. Utku Unver),
Social Choice
and Welfare 27, 3-24, (2006). Abstract
2. Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many Matching Problems,
(with M.Utku Unver), Journal of Economic
Theory 129, 57-80, (2006). Abstract
[This paper has been
circulated under the title, “Credible Group-Stability in Multi-Partner
Matching Problems.”]
3. Decentralized Matching Markets with Endogeneous Salaries, (with Margarita Sapozhnikov).
Games and Economic Behavior
64, 193-218, (2008).
International Trade
1. Free
Trade Networks, (with Taiji Furusawa), Journal
of International Economics 72, 310-335, (2007).
2. Free Trade, Customs Unions, and Transfers, (with Carsten
Kowalczyk and Tomas Sjostrom),
(2003). http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/wp568.pdf, Abstract
3. Free Trade Networks with Transfers, (with Taiji Furusawa), (2005), Japanese Economic Review 56, 144-164. Abstract.
5.
Global Free Trade is in the Core of
Customs Union Game, (with Carsten Kowalczyk and Tomas Sjöström).
Forthcoming in Review of
International Economics (special issue in memory of Koji Shimomura). carsten7.pdf
Industrial
Organization
1. Concentration of Competing Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 488-512,
(2005). Abstract
2. Referrals in Search Markets, (with Maria Arbatskaya). (2006)
revised in 2008.refer_et15.pdf
3. The
Unilateral Incentives for Technology Transfers: Predation by Proxy (and
deterrence), (with Anthony Creane).
(2008) forthcoming in International
Journal of Industrial Organization.wp677final.pdf
Political
Economy
1. “Salience”: Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates, (with Marcus
Berliant), Public Choice 125,
129-149, (2005). Abstract
Current Research Projects (coming soon?)
1. Political Economy of the GATT XXIV, (with Taiji Furusawa).
2. Consumer Referrals, (with Samson Alva and
Maria Arbatskaya).
3. A Note on Binding Agreements, (with Bhaskar
Dutta).
4.
Sequential Consumer Search and Agglomeration of Firms in a Single-Dimensional
Geographical Space, (with Qi Yu).
5.
Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker.
6.
Market for Clubs: Clubs with Endogeneous
User Frequency, (in progress).
7.
Licensing Technology to Your Competitors,
(with Anthony Creane), (in progress).
Coauthors
in Published Papers
Suryapratim Banerjee (McGill University, Canada)
Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)
John Conley (
Anthony Creane (
Peter Fishburn (ATT Research Lab)
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
Yasushi Iwamoto (
Carsten
Kowalczyk (
Michel Le Breton
(University of Toulouse, France)
Ping Lin (
Fernando Perera-Tallo (
Thomas Quint (University of Nevada at Reno,
Mathematics Department)
Debraj Ray (New York University, & CODE,
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University)
Michael Sandfort (US Department of Justice,
Antitrust Division)
Margarita Sapozhnikov (CRA International)
Tomas
Sjöström (
Tayfun Sönmez (
M. Utku Ünver (University of Pittsburgh)
Jun Wako (Gakushuin University, Japan)