Hideo Konishi

Professor of Economics

 

Department of Economics
 Boston College

140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

Tel: (617)-552-1209
Fax: (617)-552-2308
Email: hideo.konishi@bc.edu

My Official BC Webpage

CV
Research
Coauthors in Published Papers

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CV (in pdf format)
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Research



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, forthcoming in

Regional Science and Urban Economics (the special issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita). tiebout4.pdf

 

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Pdf files of unpublished papers can be downloaded.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. Contributing or Free-Riding? A Theory of Endogenous Lobby Formation, (with Taiji Furusawa). free_rider5.pdf

 

2. Tiebout's Tale in Spatial Economies: Entrepreneurship, Self-Selection and Efficiency, forthcoming in

Regional Science and Urban Economics (the special issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita). tiebout4.pdf

 

3.      Carpooling and Congestion Pricing: HOV and HOT Lanes, (with Se-il Mun). Preliminary draft. hovhot0811.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).

Forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior. dcmatch5.pdf, Abstract

 

 

International Trade

1. Free Trade Networks, (with Taiji Furusawa), Journal of International Economics 72, 310-335, (2007).

Abstract

 

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.

 

4.      Global Free Trade is in the Core of Customs Union Game, (with Carsten Kowalczyk and Tomas Sjöström).

Forthcoming in Review of International Economics (the 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 (with Anthony Creane). (2007) revised in 2008.predation.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 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.      Efficient and Homogenous Clubs?

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Coauthors in Published Papers

Suryapratim Banerjee (McGill University, Canada)

Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)

John Conley (Vanderbilt University)

Peter Fishburn (ATT Research Lab)

Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

Yasushi Iwamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Carsten Kowalczyk (Tufts University, Fletcher School)

Michel Le Breton (University of Toulouse, France)

Ping Lin (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Fernando Perera-Tallo (University of La Laguna, Spain)

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 (Rutgers University)

Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College)

M. Utku Ünver (University of Pittsburgh)

Jun Wako (Gakushuin University, Japan)

Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University).


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