Hiroshi Kitamura

Last Update: April 26, 2013

Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Osaka University, 2010

Current Position
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University

E-mail
hiroshikitamura[at]cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp (please replace [at] with@)

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Lectures at Kyoto Sangyo University

Industrial Organization A, Spring 2013 (4/19/2013)
Mathematics for Economics A, Spring, 2013 (4/26/2013)
Industrial Organization B, Fall 2013
Mathematics for Economics B, Fall 2013

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Research

Fields of Interests

Applied Microeconomics
1. Industrial Organization
2. Antitrust Economics
3. Business Economics
4. Law and Economics
5. Reguratory Economics

Awards

2011 Young Investigator's Award of the Japanese Association for Applied Economics

Academic Dissertation

"Essays on Market Diffusion and Exclusive Dealing," Ph.D. Dissertation (Advisor: Katsuya Takii), Osaka University, March 2010
"Capacity Expansion in Markets with Intertemporal Consumption Externalities," Master Thesis (Advisor: Katsuya Takii), Osaka University, March 2006

Published and Forthcoming Papers in Refereed Journals

''Exclusive Contracts when the Incumbent can Establish a Direct Retailer,''forthcoming inJournal of Economics (joint with K. Arai and M. Sato) Poster
"Market Diffusion with Consumer-Based Bilateral Learning,''Studies in Applied Economics Vol. 5, pp 1-20, December 2011 (lead article, joint with A. Miyaoka)
''Exclusive Contracts under Financial Constraints,''The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 57, pp 1-29, September 2011Poster
"Capacity Expansion in Markets with Inter-temporal Consumption Externalities,''Australian Economic Papers Vol. 49 No. 2, pp 127-148, June 2010
"Exclusionary Vertical Contracts with Multiple Entrants,"International Journal of Industrial Organization Vol. 28 No.3, pp 213-219, May 2010

Supplementary Materials for Published Papers

Working Papers

"How Does Downstream Firms' Efficiency Affect Exclusive Supply Agreements?" (joint with N. Matsushima and M. Sato)
"Market-Share Contracts with Vertical Externalities," (joint with Y. Amemiya and J. Oshiro), submitted to a refereed journal.
''Relationship-Specific Investment as A Barrier to Entry,'' (joint with A. Miyaoka and M. Sato), revise
''Free Entry, Market Diffusion, and Social Inefficiency with Endogenously Growing Demand,'' (joint with A. Miyaoka and M. Sato), revised and resubmitted toJournal of the Japanese and International Economies (R2)

Published and Forthcoming Papers in Non Refereed Journals

"Economic Perspective of Exclusive Dealing,''Kosei Torihiki Vol. 734, pp 76, December 2011 (in Japanese)
"An Experimental Study of Exclusive Dealing Contracts under Nondiscriminatory Offers,''Information Science Vol. 31, pp 25-35, March 2011 (in Japanese, joint with M. Kawauchi, N. Nakamura, and W. Tamura)

Works in Progress

"Experimental Studies of Exclusive Dealing," (Tentative Title, joint with W. Tamura)
"Exclusive Dealing with Technological Spillover: Investment Promotion vs Entry Deterrence" (Tentative Title)
"Exclusive Dealing under Oligopolistic Interaction" (Tentative Title)
"Vertical Contracts in Differentiated Upstream Markets" (Tentative Title, joint with Y. Amemiya and J. Oshiro)
"Exclusive Dealing with Complementary Inputs" (Tentative Title, joint with N. Matsushima and M. Sato)

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