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.
Efficient Mixed Clubs: Nonlinear-Pricing
Equilibria with Entrepreneurial Managers.
Forthcoming in Japanese
Economic Review (2009 Nakahara Lecture) mixedclub.pdf
Presentation slides: JEA-prsn.pdf
2.
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
3.
Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many
Matching Problems, (with M.Utku Unver),
Journal of Economic
Theory 129, 57-80, (2006). Abstract
4. Concentration of Competing
Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics
58, 488-512,
(2005). Abstract
5. Coalition Formation
as a Dynamic Process, Journal of Economic
Theory 110, 1-41,
(with Debraj Ray), (2003). Abstract
6. Core in a Simple
Coalition Formation Game, Social Choice
and Welfare 18, 135-153,
(with Suryapratim Banerjee and Tayfun Sonmez), (2001).
Abstract
7. Formation of Hub
Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and Population Agglomeration,
Journal of
Urban Economics 48, 1-28, (2000). A longer version Abstract
8. 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
9. Voting with Ballots
and Feet: Existence of Equilibrium in a Local Public Good Economy,
Journal of
Economic Theory 68, 480-509, (1996). Abstract
10. 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Pdf files of unpublished papers can be downloaded.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.
Efficient Mixed Clubs: Nonlinear-Pricing
Equilibria with Entrepreneurial Managers.
Forthcoming in Japanese
Economic Review (2009 Nakahara Lecture) mixedclub.pdf
Presentation slides: JEA-prsn.pdf
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). hovhot816with figures.pdf
Matching
and Network
1.
Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker, (with Chiu Yu Ko).matchmaker13.pdf (comments
welcome)
2. Games of Capacity Manipulations in Hospital-Intern Markets,
(with M. Utku Unver),
Social
Choice and Welfare 27, 3-24, (2006). Abstract
3. 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.”]
4. 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.
4.
Global Free Trade is in the Core of
Customs Union Game, (with Carsten Kowalczyk and Tomas Sjöström).
Review of
International Economics 17, 304-309 (special issue in memory of Koji Shimomura).
Industrial
Organization
1. Consumer Referrals, (with Maria Arbatskaya). coming soon?
2. Goldilocks and the Licensing Firm: Choosing a Partner when
Rivals are Heterogeneous, (with Anthony Creane).
Goldilocks and the licensing firm.pdf (comments welcome)
3. Referrals in Search Markets, (with Maria Arbatskaya). (2006)
revised in 2008.refer_et15.pdf
4. The
Unilateral Incentives for Technology Transfers: Predation by Proxy (and
deterrence), (with Anthony Creane).
(2009) International Journal
of Industrial Organization 27, 379-389.
5. Concentration of Competing Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics 58, 488-512,
(2005). Abstract
Political
Economy
1. “Salience”: Agenda Choices by Competing Candidates, (with Marcus
Berliant), Public Choice 125,
129-149, (2005). Abstract
Incomplete Research Projects
1.
A
Note on Binding Agreements, (with Bhaskar Dutta).
2. Voluntary Participation and the
Provision of Public Goods in Large Finite Economies, (with Ryusuke Shinohara).
3.
Entrepreneurial Land Developers: Local Externalities and Mixed Housing
Developments.
4.
Sequential Consumer Search and Agglomeration of Firms in a Single-Dimensional
Geographical Space, (with Qi Yu).
.
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)