• 　Professional Career

Yosuke Yasuda graduated from the University of Tokyo in 2002, receiving the Ouchi Hyoe Prize for the best undergraduate thesis and serving as the valedictorian of the Faculty of Economics. In the fall of the same year, he entered Princeton University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 2007. He subsequently served as Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Associate Professor and Full Professor at the University of Osaka, before assuming his current position in October 2025.  He has published numerous papers in leading international academic journals, including the American Economic Review. In addition to his research, he actively contributes to public discourse as a government committee member and television commentator. In 2020, he co-founded Economics Design Inc., aiming to bridge academic economics and business practice.

• Selected publications

・Folk Theorem under Bankruptcy (with Carmen Bevia and Luis Corchon), Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol.112, June, 2024.
・Moral Hazard and Subjective Evaluation (with Shingo Ishiguro), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol.209, April, 2023.
・Oligopolistic Equilibrium and Financial Constraints (with Carmen Bevia and Luis Corchon), RAND Journal of Economics, Vol.51, Issue.1, pp.279-300, 2020.
・Bankruptcy is an Inevitable Fate of Repeated Investments with Leverage (with Momoka Nii, Takuya Okabe, Hiromu Ito, Satoru Moria, and Jin Yoshimura), Scientific Reports, Vol.9, #13745, 2019.
・Strategy-proof Matching with Regional Minimum and Maximum Quotas (with Masahiro Goto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yujiro Kawasaki, Ryoji Kurata, and Makoto Yokoo), Artificial Intelligence, Vol.235, pp.49-57, 2016.
・Expanding “Choice” in School Choice (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yeon-Koo Che), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol.7, No.1, pp.1-42, 2015.
・Strategy-Proof Matching with Regional Minimum Quotas (with Masahiro Goto, Naoyuki Hashimoto, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yujiro Kawasaki, and Makoto Yokoo), AAMAS2014 (Conference Proceedings, Full Paper), pp.1225-1232, 2014.
・Instability in the Hotelling’s Non-Price Spatial Competition Model, Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3, No.3a, pp.7-10, 2013.
・Resolving Conflicting Preferences in School Choice: The “Boston Mechanism” Reconsidered (with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yeon-Koo Che), American Economic Review, Vol.101, No.1, pp.399-410, 2011.

• Social contributions

Referee and review activities
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Review, BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Economics Letters, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, International Journal of Economic Theory, Japan and World Economy, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Mathematics of Social Science, National Science Foundation (Grant, US), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Research Grants Council (Grant, Hong Kong), Singapore Economic Review, Social Choice and Welfare, Southern Economic Journal, Theoretical Economics, Theoretical Economics Letters.

• Areas in which you can provide media response

Game Theory, General Topics on Business Economics, Nobel Prize (in Economic Science)

• Web-site

Personal web page
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• e-mail: yosuke.yasuda

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