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Kan Kuno

I am a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD). Before joining the University of Tokyo, I obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Penn State in 2024. [cv]

Email: kankuno[at]e.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Research Interests

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design

Working Papers

• Strategic Waiting in Centralized Matching: Daycare Assignment
  • arXiv
  • Presented at: SWET 2024, APIOC 2024
• Buyer Commitment in Bilateral Bargaining: The Case of Online Japanese C2C Market
  • arXiv, UTMD Working Paper
  • Presented at: IIOC 2025, Waseda, ESWC 2025, EARIE 2025, APIOC 2025
• Unequal Global Convergence
  (with Shoumitro Chatterjee, Elisa Giannone, Tatjana Kleineberg, and Luca Looser)
  • Draft
• Daycare Matching with Siblings: Social Implementation and Welfare Evaluation
  (with Daisuke Moriwaki and Yoshihiro Takenami)
  • arXiv, UTMD Working Paper, RIETI DP
  • Presented at: SWET 2025

Selected Work in Progress

• Wage Stagnation in the Daycare Industry: A Two-Sided Market Perspective
  (with Kei Ikegami)
• Spatial Design of Childcare: Where and How to Allocate Public Facilities
  (with Shotaro Beppu)
• Regulation and Private Lodging Markets (working title)
  (with Kaede Hanazawa, Suguru Otani, and Atsushi Yamagishi)

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Last updated: April 16, 2026