Professor at Kobe University, Graduate School of Business Administration. Interested in platform businesses. Tweets are mostly in Japanese, sometimes in English
Delighted to share that my paper “Should Platforms Be Held Liable for Defective Third-Party Goods?” is now published in International Economic Review. It examines when platform-liability regulation benefits consumers—and when it may backfire.
https://t.co/iG3Y7ebn28
We develop a tractable model to analyze competition between multiproduct intermediaries. Two intermediation modes—reseller and marketplace—are examined. Surprisingly, under marketplace mode, a weaker intermediary may benefit from limiting its power against producers/suppliers.
New working paper out now with my excellent coauthors Zhijun Chen and Tat-How Teh:
“Competing Multiproduct Intermediaries”
Full text: https://t.co/NmL1jc2rq9
🌟 Amazon Japan's Economist Team is expanding 🌟
If you're a proactive problem-solver with a passion for applying economic models to real-world business issues, we'd love to hear from you! 🚀
Follow the link to apply and join our growing team!
https://t.co/uerswnQNpu
What a fantastic recruiting year we had! Monash Economics welcomes Lisa Botbol (Toulouse), Alexander Haas @ahaas_econ (Oxford), Santiago Hermo (Brown), and Kate Huang (Caltech) as our newest members. Great people and great economists all.
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.
@EconJobMarket 📢 Hiring a 3-year Research Fellow @EUI_ECO in Florence, for my ERC project Digital Platforms: Pricing, Variety and Quality, and DFG project "Consumer Search in Platforms" joint with Markus Reisinger. Micro theorists apply here https://t.co/45gqdOYSR3