Social and Economic Research
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Joint Usage and Research Center for Behavioral Economics
News
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.
Jul 2nd, 2026
"Do people rely on ChatGPT more than their peers to detect deepfake news?", by Yuhao Fu and Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki has been accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination.
Jun 29th, 2026
Deepak Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) is visiting us from Jun 29, 2026 to Jul 14, 2026.
Jun 29th, 2026
Assistant Professor Haruka Uchida (University of Chicago) is visiting us from Jun 29, 2026 to Jul 5, 2026.
Upcoming Event
7/13
Chishio Furukawa
Yokohama National University
10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)
7/14
In Hwan Jo
Waseda University
16:00 ~ 17:30
7/17
Wei-Min Hu
National Chengchi University
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
7/21
Ken Yamada
Kyoto University
10:45 ~ 12:15 (Online)
7/24
Erkut Y. Ozbay
University of Maryland
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
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
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
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