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. [cv]

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

Research Interests

Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design

Upcoming Presentations

June 5, 2026: Kyoto University
July 6-10, 2026: EC'26
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'26)

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

Last updated: May 19, 2026