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Dr Kohei Kawamura
Dr Kawamura's research interests include game theoretic analysis of communication, and the theory of the firm.
- Dr Kohei Kawamura
- Lecturer in Economics
- School of Economics
- Room 2.08, 31 Buccleuch Place
- Work: +44 (0)131 651 3759
- Email:
- Kohei.Kawamura@ed.ac.uk
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- Areas of interest
- Game theoretic analysis of communication
- Theory of the firm
- Communication environments and truth telling
- Corporate governance
Background
Kohei Kawamura obtained his MPhil and PhD from the University of Oxford, where he was a student at Nuffield College and lecturer at St Hugh's College.
He did his BA and MA in commerce at Waseda University, Tokyo.
His research interests are in game theoretic analysis of communication, and the theory of the firm.
He has been studying how communication environments affect people's incentive to tell the truth (or a lie).
He has also worked on corporate governance, especially the relationship between employees and managerial decision making.
Selected publications
- "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), 324-335, 2007.
Research Papers and work in progress
- "A Model of Public Consultation" November 2008: revision requested
- "Shareholder Rights, Board Independence and Firm Value"
- "Confidence and Competence in Communication"
- "Voice and Anonymity in Firms"
- "Internal Transparency, Managerial Discretion and Worker Incentives"
- "Constrained Communication with Multiple Agents: Anonymity, Equal Treatment and Public Good Provision" February 2007: partially superseded by "A Model of Public Consultation"
This article was published on May 2, 2012