Takeshi Yamazaki Department of Economics Niigata University 8050 Ikarashi 2-no-cho, Nishi-ku Niigata-shi 950-2181, JAPAN E-mail: Phone and Fax #: +(81) 25-262-6508

Education

Positions

Research Interests

Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, Urban Economics and International Economics

Current Research

1. Rent Seeking and Lobbying Competition

2. Theoretical analysis of durable-goods markets such as housing markets

Current Teaching

Introductory Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics

Publications

A. Papers published in Refereed Journals

“The Uniqueness of Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Rent-Seeking Games with Risk-Averse Players,” Public Choice, Vol. 139(3), pp. 335-342, June 2009.

“Global Stability of Unique Nash Equilibrium in Cournot Oligopoly and Rent-Seeking Game,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , Vol. 32(4), pp. 1204-1211, April 2008 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“On the Existence and Uniqueness of Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Asymmetric Rent-Seeking Contests,” Journal of Public Economic Theory , Vol. 10(2), pp. 317-327, February 2008.

“Stability of Equilibrium in Bertrand and Cournot Duopolies,”International Game Theory Review , Vol. 6(3), pp. 381-390, September 2004 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“Tariff Rate as a Public Good,”Review of International Economics, Vol. 12(1), pp. 95-107, February 2004.

“Two-Stage Cournot Oligopolies with Industry-Wide Externalities,”Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 9(1), pp. 1-15, Spring 1996 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“Ad valorem and Specific Taxes, and Optimal Pigouvian Tax within Cournot Oligopoly,”Keio Economic Studies, Vol. 31(2), pp. 25-32, 1994 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“General Analysis of Horizontal Merger,”Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol. 7(3), pp. 279-90, Autumn 1994 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“Bertrand and Hierarchical Stackelberg Oligopolies with Product Differentiation,”Keio Economic Studies, Vol. 31(1), pp. 75-80, 1994 (with Koji Okuguchi)

B. Selected Papers Published in Non-Refereed Journals

“On the Existence and Uniqueness of Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Rent-Seeking Games with Risk-Averse Players : A Cumulative-Best-Reply Approach,” The Journal of Economics, Niigata University, Vol. 88, pp. 51-66, March 2010.

“Paradoxical Results in A Lobbing Model of Protection,” Review of Economics and Information Studies, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University, Vol. 1, pp. 27-35, July 1999 (with Koji Okuguchi).

Working Papers

“Heterogeneity and Number of Firms in a Patent Race Game,” Working Paper Series No.111, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, December 2009 (with Noriaki Matsushima).

“Group-Size Effects on Endogenous Tariff in a Lobbying Contest Model,” Working Paper Series No.82, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, January 2008.

“Global Stability of Nash Equilibrium in Aggregative Games,” Working Paper Series No.77, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, February 2007 (with Koji Okuguchi).

“Heterogeneity of Domestic and Foreign Firms in A Lobbying Competition Model of Tariff Determination,” Working Paper Series No.75, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, January 2007.

“Group-Size Effects in A Lobbying Competition Model of Tariff Determination,” Working Paper Series No.74, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, January 2007.

“Intra-Group Heterogeneity in Asymmetric Contests with Free Riding,” Working Paper Series No.73, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, January 2007.

“Asymmetric Public Good Contests with Cooperative Agents,” Working Paper Series No.72, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, January 2007.

“On the Existence and Uniqueness of Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Aggregative Games,” Working Paper Series No.69, Faculty of Economics, Niigata University, November 2006.

“Existence, Uniqueness and Efficiency of Dynamic Housing Market Equilibrium,” paper presented at 47th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Chicago, IL, USA, November 2000 (with A. Anas and R. J. Arnott).


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