Kohei Kawamura's Homepage

Updated 14 January 2012

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Lecturer in Economics
University of Edinburgh

• kohei.kawamura@ed.ac.uk
• My profile at school website

      [Curriculum Vitae]

Research Interests

• Contract Theory, Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Political Economy, Corporate Governance

Publications

• "A Model of Public Consultation: Why is Binary Communication So Common?", Economic Journal, 121(553), 819-842, 2011. [pdf]
  
* Featured in the Guardian/Observer


• "Noisy Talk" (with Andreas Blume and Oliver Board), Theoretical Economics, 2(4), 395-440, 2007.
   
• "Managerial Control inside the Firm" (with Shinichi Hirota), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 21(3), 324-35, 2007. [pdf]

Research Papers and Work in Progress

• "Eliciting Information from a Large Population" [pdf]  July 2011: revise and resubmit
  
  
• "Confidence and Competence in Communication" [pdf]  January 2012
  
  
• "Shareholder Rights, Board Independence and Firm Value" 
   
• "Voice and Anonymity in Firms"
   
• "Internal Transparency, Managerial Discretion and Worker Incentives"
   
• "Constrained Communication with Multiple Agents: Anonymity, Equal Treatment and Public Good Provision" [pdf]  February 2007: partially superseded by "A Model of Public Consultation"

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