Social and Economic Research
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Joint Usage and Research Center for Behavioral Economics
News
Jul 24th, 2026
Professor Botond Kőszegi (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn) is visiting us from Jul 24, 2026 to Jul 31, 2026.
Jul 16th, 2026
Assistant Professor Yueyang Cao (Capital University of Economics and Business) is visiting us from Jul 16, 2026 to Aug 31, 2026.
Jul 15th, 2026
Professor Wei-Min Hu (National Chengchi University) is visiting us from Jul 15, 2026 to Jul 25, 2026.
Jul 4th, 2026
"Detecting trustworthiness in strangers: human faces vary in their informativeness, but cannot be accurately judged", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with Adam Zylbersztejn, Zakaria Babutsidze, Astrid Hopfensitz) has been accepted for publication in Theory and Decision.
Jul 3rd, 2026
"Preferences for wealth accumulation and wealth inequality:
Experimental evidence", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with Yuta Shimodaira) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Upcoming Event
8/28
Satoshi Fukuda
Santa Clara University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
9/4
Elaine M. Liu
Georgia State University
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
9/16
GSE-OSIPP-ISER Joint Conference in Economics 2026
Program Link9/18
Alistair J. Wilson
University of Pittsburgh
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
9/28
Sebastian Seitz
University of Manchester
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
10/19
Laura Panza
University of Melbourne
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
10/26
Jun Goto
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
11/16
The 29th Moriguchi Prize
2/15
Sanjeev Goyal
University of Cambridge
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
5/6
Michael Weber
Purdue University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
Research Highlights
Robustly Optimal Voting Rule
Noriaki Kiguchi,
Shinpei Noguchi,
Yuta Takahashi
Journal of Economic Theory,
forthcoming
Optimal Design of Market Access
Takuro Yamashita,
Shuguang Zhu
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
forthcoming
Olivia Miske,
Gwen-Jiro Clochard,
et al.
Nature,
652
pp.126-134
2026
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5
Eugene Malthouse,
Charlie Pilgrim,
Daniel Sgroi,
Gwen-Jiro Clochard,
Nobuyuki Hanaki,
et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
123
(12)
2026
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504632123
A Behavioral Explanation for the Puzzling Persistence of the Aggregate Real Exchange Rate
Mario J. Crucini,
Mototsugu Shintani,
Takayuki Tsuruga
Journal of the European Economic Association,
forthcoming
Institute of Social and Economic Research
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