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, 461-477, (2008), (special issue in honor of
Masahisa Fujita).
Abstract
3. Free Trade Networks, (with Taiji
Furusawa), Journal of International Economics 72, 310-335, (2007).
4.
Credible Group-Stability in Many-to-Many
Matching Problems, (with M.Utku Unver),
Journal of Economic
Theory 129, 57-80, (2006). Abstract
5. Concentration of Competing
Retail Stores, Journal of Urban Economics
58, 488-512,
(2005). Abstract
6. Coalition
Formation as a Dynamic Process, Journal
of Economic Theory 110, 1-41,
(with Debraj Ray), (2003). Abstract
7. Core in a
Simple Coalition Formation Game, Social
Choice and Welfare 18, 135-153,
(with Suryapratim Banerjee and Tayfun Sonmez), (2001).
Abstract
8. Formation of
Hub Cities: Transportation Cost Advantage and Population Agglomeration,
Journal of
Urban Economics 48, 1-28, (2000). A longer version Abstract
9. 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
10. Voting with
Ballots and Feet: Existence of Equilibrium in a Local Public Good Economy,
Journal of
Economic Theory 68, 480-509, (1996). Abstract
11. 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Pdf files of unpublished papers can be downloaded.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.
Entrepreneurial Land Developers: Local Externalities and Mixed Housing
Developments. (preliminary and
incomplete)
Presented at UEA Meeting 2009. developer.pdf (comments welcome). Presentation slides developer-prsn.pdf
2. Efficient
Mixed Clubs: Nonlinear-Pricing Equilibria with Entrepreneurial Managers.
Forthcoming in Japanese
Economic Review (2009 Nakahara Lecture) mixedclub.pdf
Presentation slides: JEA-prsn.pdf
3. Contributing or
Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy, (with Taiji
Furusawa). free_riding_proof_core1.pdf
4. Tiebout's Tale in
Spatial Economies: Entrepreneurship, Self-Selection and Efficiency,
Regional Science and Urban Economics 38, 461-477, (2008), (special issue in honor of Masahisa Fujita).
5. 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.
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)