Takashi Shimizu

July 2009

• Position: Associate Professor
• Affiliation: Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
• Address: 3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita, Osaka 564-8680, Japan
• Phone: +81-6-6368-0617
• E-mail: tshimizu@ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp
• Website: http://www2.ipcku.kansai-u.ac.jp/~tshimizu/index.html

Education:

• Ph.D. (Economics): University of Tokyo, February 2001.
• M.A. (Economics): University of Tokyo, March 1996.
• B.A. (Economics): Waseda University, March 1994.

Major Fields of Interest:

• Search Theory
• Game Theory
• Monetary Economics
• Family Economics

Professonal Appointments:

• Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
  • Associate Professor, April 2005-present.
  • Lecturer, April 2004-March 2005.
• Graduate Scool of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
  • Lecturer, April 2002-March 2003.
• Graduate Scool of Economics, University of Tokyo
  • Research Assistant, April 2000-March 2001.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• Existence of Equilibria in Matching Models of Money: A New Technique, with K. Kamiya, Economic Theory, vol.32, pp.447-460, 2007.
• On the Role of Tax-Subsidy Scheme in Money Search Models, with K. Kamiya, International Economic Review, vol.48, pp.575-606, 2007.
• Real Indeterminacy of Stationary Equilibria in Matching Models with Divisible Money, with K. Kamiya, Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol.42, pp.594-617, 2006.
• On the Existence of Single-Price Equilibria in a Matching Model with Divisible Money and Production Cost, with K. Kamiya and N. Morishita, International Journal of Economic Theory, vol.1, pp.219-231, 2005.
• A Theory of Money and Marketplaces, with A. Matsui, International Economic Review, vol. 46, pp.35-59, 2005.

Working Papers:

• Cheap Talk with an Inofrmed Receiver, with J. Ishida, June 2009.
• A Model of Exit and Voice in a Marriage Market, with A. Maruyama and K. Yamamoto, March 2009.
• Stationary Monetary Equilibria with Strictly Increasing Value Functions and Non-Discrete Money Holdings Distributions: An Indeterminacy Result, with K. Kamiya, February 2009.
• Cheap Talk with an Exit Option: A Model of Exit and Voice, August 2008.
• Dynamic Auction Markets with Fiat Money, with K. Kamiya, June 2008.
• A Small Incongruence Leads to No Information Transmission, with A. Kenichi, May 2005.

Works in Progress:

• Abductive Inference in Game Theory, with A. Matsui.
• Hysteresis in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Cash-in-Advance Constraint, with, K. Kamiya.

Other Articles and Books:

• Search Theory, with R. Imai, N. Kudo and M. Sasaki, University of Tokyo Press, 2007 (in Japanese).
• A Search-Theoretic Model of Money with Commitment, The Economic Review of Kansai University, vol.54, pp.181-194, 2005 (in Japanese).
• A New Approach to the Search Theory of Money, Hitotsubashi University Research Series, Economics, vol.45, pp.197-234, 2003 (in Japanese).
• The Coordination Problem and the Social Information, Ph.D Thesis, University of Tokyo, 2000.
• Procedural Rationality, Nash Equilibrium, and Focal Points, with H. Takizawa, Mita Journal of Economics, vol.91, pp.104-106, 1998.

Grants:

• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology, April 2006-March 2008.
• Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology, April 2003-March 2005.
• Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 1996-March 1998.

Refereeing:

• Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics (3)
• International Journal of Economic Theory
• International Journal of Game Theory
• Japanese Economic Review (2)
• Journal of Economic Theory
• Journal of Public Economic Theory
• Journal of the Japanese and International Economics

References:

• Michihiro Kandori
  • Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
  • E-mail: kandori@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Akihiko Matsui
  • Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
  • E-mail: amatsui@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
• Kazuya Kamiya
  • Department of Economics, University of Tokyo
  • E-mail: kkamiya@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp