Hajime Kobayashi

 

 

Academic Positions

2013-present, Professor, Kansai University

2011-2013, Associate Professor, Kansai University

2006-2011, Associate Professor, Osaka Prefecture University

2002-2006, Assistant Professor, Osaka Prefecture University


Visiting Positions

November 2018, University of Bologna

February 2019, Monash University

March 2019,  University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis

April 2020-present, Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology 


Education

Ph.D. 2002, Kobe University

M.A. 1997, University of Tsukuba

B.A. 1995, Hosei University

 

Fields

Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Organizational Economics, Experimental Economics

Research

Published and Forthcoming Papers

"Impact of a National Screening Programme on Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors," (with Yoko M Nakao, Chris P Gale, Kei Miyazaki, Ayako Matsuda, Ramesh Nadarajah, Taizo Motonishi), European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, zwac283, 2022,  https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac283.

"Observability of Partners’ Past Play and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence," (joint with Kenju Kamei and Tsz Kwan Tse), Economics Letters, 210, 110186, 2022.

"On the Monetary Exchange with Multiple Equilibrium Money Holdings Distributions: An Experimental Approach," (joint with Kazuya Kamiya, Tatsuhiro Shichijo, and Takashi Shimizu), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, 206-232,  2021.

"Does Cheap Talk Promote Coordination under Asymmetric Information? An Experimental Study on Global Games,"  (joint with Jieyi Duan and Tatsuhiro Shichijo), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 86, 2020. 

"Optimal Sharing Rules in Repeated Partnerships," (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tadashi Sekiguchi), Journal of Economic Theory, 166, 311-323, 2016.

"Optimal Collusion under Imperfect Monitoring in Multimarket Contact," (joint with Katsunori Ohta), Games and Economic Behavior, 76(2), 636-647, 2012.

"Multimarket Contact in Continuous-Time Games," (joint with Katsunori Ohta), Economics Letters, 101(1), 4-5, 2008.

"Intergenerational Conflicts of Interests and Seniority Systems in Organizations," (joint with Munetomo Ando), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 65(3), 757-767, 2008.

"Folk Theorems for Infinitely Repeated Games Played by Organizations with Short-Lived Members," International Economic Review, 48(2), 517-549, 2007.

"Emergence of Leadership in Teams," (joint with Hideo Suehiro), Japanese Economic Review, 56(3), 295-316, 2005.

Working Papers

"Efficiency of Monetary Exchange with Divisible Fiat Money: An Experimental Approach, "(joint with Kazuya Kamiya, Tatsuhiro Shichijo, and Takashi Shimizu), DP2019-21, RIEB, Kobe University, 2019.

"Equilibrium Selection in Monetary Search Models: An Experimental Approach" (joint with Kazuya Kamiya, Tatsuhiro Shichijo, and Takashi Shimizu), DP2017-03, RIEB, Kobe University, 2017.

"Experiments on Repeated Games with Infrequent Monitoring," (joint with Tatsuhiro Shichijo, Shigeki Kano, Katsunori Ohta, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, and Takafumi Yamakawa)Working Paper Series F-77, Kansai University, 2015.

"Leadership in Prisoner's Dilemmas with Inequity Aversive Preferences," (joint with Koji Abe and Hideo Suehiro), Discussion Paper Series No. 2014-9, GSBA, Kobe University, 2014.

"Optimal Shirking in Teams," (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tadashi Sekiguchi), 2012.

"Experiments on Emergence of Leadership in Teams," (joint with Koji Abe and Hideo Suehiro), Working Paper Series F-49, Kansai University, 2011.

"Leadership by Confidence in Teams," (joint with Hideo Suehiro), Discussion Paper Series No. 2008_35, GSBA, Kobe University, July 2008. 

"Optimal Sharing Rules in Repeated Partnerships," (joint with Katsunori Ohta and Tadashi Sekiguchi), KIER Discussion Paper Series No. 650, Kyoto University, March 2008.

"The Value of Collusion in Multimarket Contact," (joint with Katsunori Ohta), CAEA Discussion Paper, No. 144, Kyoto University, 2007.

 

Work in Progress

"Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma by Letting Bygones Be Bygones: An Inter-Generational Experiment" (joint with Jieyi Duan, Takao Kusakawa, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, and Tatsuhiro Shichijo) , 2017.

"Equilibrium Selection in Dynamic Auction Markets with Fiat Money: An Experimental Approach" (joint with Kazuya Kamiya, Tatsuhiro Shichijo, and Takashi Shimizu) , 2018.


Referee

Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Japan and the World Economy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Economics

Programming

R, Matlab, Stata, Limdep/Nlogit, Python

Affiliations

Econometric Society, Economic Science Association, Game Theory Society, Japanese Economic Association

Teaching

*Kansai University (Kandai):

Organizational Economics

Introductory Microeconomics