Keisuke HATTORI

  • Professor, School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Address: 4-4-25, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 1508366, JAPAN
  • Email: hattori “at” busi.aoyama.ac.jp

Research Areas

  • Public Economics: Provision of Public Goods, Advertising Regulations.
  • Industrial Organization: Mergers, Advertising, Competition Policy.
  • Environmental Economics: Trade and Environment, Political Economy on Environmental Policymaking.
  • Organizational Economics: Leadership, Team Production.

Published Papers (Refereed)

  1. “Procrastination Traps and Endogenous Leadership in Teams”, Economics Letters, forthcoming.
  2. “A Paradox of Coalition Building in Public Good Provision”, Economic Modeling, 135, 106722, 2024. (Co-authored with Wolfgang Buchholz.) [LINK]
  3. “Who should be Regulated: Genuine Producers or Third Parties?”, Journal of Economics, 138(3), 249-286, 2023. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.) [LINK]
  4. “Effective Leadership Selection in Complementary Teams”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 176(4), 620-639, 2020. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada.) [LINK]
  5. “Skill Diversity and Leadership in Team Production”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 174(2), 351-374, 2018. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada.) [LINK]
  6. “Optimal Combination of Innovation and Environmental Policies under Technology Licensing”, Economic Modelling, 64, 601-609, 2017. [LINK]
  7. “Free Entry and Social Inefficiency under Co-opetition”, Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift f\UTF{00FC}r National\UTF{00F6}konomie), 118(2), 97-119, 2016. (Co-authored with Takeshi Yoshikawa.) [LINK]
  8. “Who Benefits from Misleading Advertising?”, Economica, 82(328), 613-643, 2015. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.) [LINK]
  9. “Within-group Cooperation and Between-group Externalities in the Provision of Public Goods”, International Tax and Public Finance, 22(2), 252-273, 2015. [LINK]
  10. “Trade Liberalization and Environmental Regulation on International Transportation”, Japanese Economic Review, 65(4), 468-482. 2014. (Co-authored with Kenzo Abe and Yoshitaka Kawagoshi.) [LINK]
  11. “Misleading Advertising and Minimum Quality Standards”, Information Economics and Policy, 28, 1-14, 2014. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.) [LINK]
  12. “Complementary Alliance in Composite Good Markets with Network Structure”, Manchester School, 82(1), 33-51, 2014 (Co-authored with Ming-Hsin Lin.) [LINK]
  13. “Endogenous Timing in Strategic Environmental Policymaking”, Environmental and Resource Economics, 55(2), 199-215, 2013. (Co-authored with Takahiro Kitamura.) [LINK]
  14. “Environmental Innovation and Policy Harmonization in International Oligopoly”, Environment and Development Economics, 18, 162-183, 2013. [Online Appendix] [LINK]
  15. “Misleading Advertising in Duopoly”, Canadian Journal of Economics, 45, 1154-1187, 2012. (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.) [LINK]
  16. “Alliance Partner Choice in Markets with Vertical and Horizontal Externalities”, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 11, Issue 1 (Topics), Article 13, 2011. (Co-authored with Ming-Hsin Lin.) [LINK]
  17. “Strategic Voting for Noncooperative Environmental Policies in Open Economies”, Environmental and Resource Economics, 46, 459-474, 2010. [LINK]
  18. “Is Technological Progress Pareto-Improving for a World with Global Public Goods?”, Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift f\UTF{00FC}r National\UTF{00F6}konomie), 84, 135-156, 205. [LINK]
  19. Essays on the Private Provision of Public Goods, Ph.D. Thesis, Osaka University, 2005. [National Diet Library, JAPAN: LINK]
  20. “Reconsideration of the Crowding-out Effect with Non-linear Contribution Technology”, Economics Bulletin, 8-7, 1-10, 2003. [LINK PDF]

Published Papers (Others)

  • Comment on “Budgets under Delegation” by Terai, K. and Glazer, A. In Ihori, T. and Terai, K. Eds, The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan, forthcoming, Springer. [LINK]
  • “Political Economy Model of Strategic Environmental Policies: A Survey of Some Recent Work” (in Japanese), Osaka Keidai Ronshu, 60, 225-239, 2010. [LINK PDF]
  • “Effects of Changes in Contribution Skills on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods”, Osaka Keidai Ronshu, 57, 119-126, 2006.
  • “The Theory on the Private Provision of Public Goods: A Survey” (in Japanese), Osaka Economic Papers, 52-2, 137-153, 2002.

Working Papers

  • “Self-Starters Are Leaders: Present-Bias Asymmetry and Collective Procrastination”, June 26, 2026. ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/341671
  • “Who Disciplines the Leader? Leadership as Exposure “, June 22, 2026. ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/341546
  • “Diverse Hands, Aligned Hearts: Ability and Preference Diversity in Team Production”, June 15, 2026. ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/341465
  • “Profit-Increasing Entry with Endogenous Banking”, February 06, 2026. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6157146
  • “Endogenous Finance and Policy Interactions: Monetary Policy, Financial Regulation, and Competition Policy”, January 25, 2026, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6131148
  • “The Burden of Excellence: Endogenous Efficiency Paradoxes under Coopetition”, RIETI Discussion Paper Series 25-E-126, December 2025. Available at RIETI: https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/25e126.pdf (Co-authored with Takeshi Yoshikawa.) [LINK]
  • “Closing the Psychological Distance: Effect of Social Interaction on Team Performance”, April 4, 2025, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5204747 (Co-authored with Mai Yamada.) [LINK]
  • “Leading with Generosity and Responsibility through Reward Allocation Decisions in Teams”, February 20, 2025, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5146087 (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida and Kimiyuki Morita.) [LINK]
  • “SLAP Typing Task: A New Experimental Paradigm for Teamwork Research”, May 11, 2024, Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4824958 [LINK]
  • “Closing the Psychological Distance: The Effect of Social Interactions on Team Performance”, MPRA Paper No. 117042. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada) [ Link PDF ]
  • “Profit-Sharing vs Price-Fixing Collusion with Heterogeneous Firms”, MPRA Paper No. 110800, posted 24 Nov 2021. [Link PDF]
  • “Welfare Implications of Sequential Entry with Heterogeneous Firms”, MPRA Paper No. 103422, posted 15 Oct 2020. (Co-authored with Mai Yamada).
  • “Heterogeneous Consumer Expectations and Monopoly Pricing for Durables with Network Externalities”, MPRA Paper No.89893. November 2019. (Co-authored with Yusuke Zennyo).
  • “Profit-maximizing Wages under Duopoly”, MPRA Paper No.70288, posted 26. March 2016.
  • “How to Commit to a Future Price”, Working Papers 131402, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics. (Co-authored with Amihai Glazer.)
  • “When Government Misleads US: Sending Misinformation as Protectionist Devices”, Kwansei Gakuin University Discussion Paper Series, No. 75, August 2011. [Link PDF] (Co-authored with Keisaku Higashida.)
  • “Policy and Product Differentiations Encourage International Transfer of Environmental Technologies”, MPRA Paper No. 4777, posted 08. September 2007. R&R
  • “Strategic Delegation of Environmental Policy Making: Corrections and Comments”, August 24, 2007. Available at SSRN: http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=1009425

Academic Positions

  • 2020 Apr. - present: Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, JAPAN.
  • 2014 Jul. - 2020 Mar: Professor, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.
  • 2008 Feb. - 2014 Jul.: Associate Professor, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.
  • 2012 Aug. - 2013 Aug.: Visiting Researcher, University of California, Irvine, USA.
  • 2005 Apr. - 2008 Feb.: Lecturer, Osaka University of Economics, JAPAN.

Education

  • Ph.D. Osaka University (2005), Economics
  • M.A. Osaka University (2002), Economics
  • B.A. Kwansei Gakuin University (2000), Economics