Kan Kuno | 久野 寛

Kan Kuno | 久野 寛

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.

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

Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design

Upcoming Presentations

• June 5, 2026: Kyoto University
• July 6-10, 2026: EC
• August 26-28, 2026: EARIE

Working Papers

• Strategic Waiting in Centralized Matching: Daycare Assignment
• Buyer Commitment in Bilateral Bargaining: The Case of Online Japanese C2C Market [UTMD WP]
• Unequal Global Convergence with Shoumitro Chatterjee, Elisa Giannone, Tatjana Kleineberg, and Luca Looser
• Daycare Matching with Siblings: Social Implementation and Welfare Evaluation with Daisuke Moriwaki and Yoshihiro Takenami [UTMD WP, RIETI DP]
  Accepted at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2026)

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: May 22, 2026