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KURODA Toshifumi

Department / Course Tokyo Keizai University Economics

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Toshifumi Kuroda is a Japanese economist and an associate professor of economics at Tokyo Keizai University. He studies empirical industrial organization, political economy, and development economics. He received the 2012 Telecom Social Science Incentive Award, given to outstanding works and research papers that contribute to the further development of information and communications. He is a fellow of Project Center of Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University from 2011 and economist of Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry from 2021 to 2023. He was educated at Kyoto University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 2003, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009.

Business career
2021/04/01 ～ 2023/06/30	Economist Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
2022	Japan Fair Trace Comittion Competition policy research center
2018/04/01 ～	Associate Professor Tokyo Keizai University Economics
2013	Part time lecturer International Christian University
2009/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Full-Time Lecturer Tokyo Keizai University Economics
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Degree/Academic background
2009/03/23 Degree Acquisition	Kyoto University
	Kyoto University
	Kyoto University
	Faculty of Political Economics Kyoto University
	Graduate School, Division of Economics Kyoto University
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User Research Outline
The effect of review and ranking in the online shopping site (with Hajime Oiso, Hidenori Sakaguchi, Takanori Ida) Investor's behavior in Equity crowdfunding （with Keiichi Kawai, Akira Matsushtia) Field experiment of Media and Political Economy (with Shuhei Kitamura) Market definition of the Mobile app market (with Kohei Kawaguchi, Susumu Sato) Oligopoly Non-linear Pricing and Bundling: A Structural Analysis (with Kohei Kawaguchi, Susumu Sato, Takanori Ida) Panel data analysis of university class enrollment on job market (with Hiroki Yasuda)

Reseach Areas
Appliec Economics

Research Subject
2016/04/01	Media and Market Equilibrium Media, Oligopoly Market
2012/04/01 2013/03/31	Privacy and Industrial organization Privacy, Price discrimination, Bundling, Competition policy
2012 2015	Theoretical and empirical research for efficient spectrum management system for unified communication and broadcast market. Spectrum allocation, Broadcast, Communication, Structural Estimation

Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense
2022/04/01 ～ 2026/03/31	Structural estimation on the statistical learning model : Application on the competition and social policy for the digital economy Research by External Competitive Fund KAKEN(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C))

Book and thesis
2023/09	Papers	Relevant markets and market power of mobile apps Japan and the World Economy 67 (Co-authored)
2023/08/18	Papers	An empirical analysis of the impacts of different styles of displaying privacy information on app users’ comprehension and willingness to use JSICR Journal,pp.1-11 (Co-authored)
2019/03	Papers	Identifying the effect of mobile operating systems on the mobile services market Information Economics and Policy 46,pp.86-95 (Co-authored)
2018/07/20	Papers	Sumātoguriddo ekonomikusu: Fīrudojikken, kōdōkeizaigaku, biggudēta ga hiraku ebidensu-seisaku (Smart Grid Economics: Evidence-based Policy Created through Field Experiments, Behavioral Economics, and Big Data) Social Science Japan Journal (Sole-authored)
2017/02/16	Papers	The effects of spectrum allocation mechanisms on market outcomes: Auctions vs beauty contests Telecommunications Policy (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
2021/08/27	Merger Analysis in the Mobile Apps Market: Market Definition and Merger Simulation (EARIE2021)
2021/02/19	Merger Analysis in the Mobile Apps Market: Market Definition and Merger Simulation (TPRC48)
2020/08/19	Public Media Do Serve The State: A Field Experiment (Econometric Society World Congress 2020)
2019/08/07	Merger Analysis in the Mobile Apps Market: Market Definition and Merger Simulation (SWET2019)
2019/06/18	Merger Analysis in the Mobile Apps Market: Market Definition and Merger Simulation (2019 ITS European Conference)
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Lecturer and lecture
2018/03/09	Media Choice and Media Effect: Evidence from a field experiment with Japan Broadcasting Corporation
2017/04/21	Media Choice and Media Effect: Evidence from a field experiment with Japan Broadcasting Corporation
2012/07/28	Analysis of the role of international network effects on the diffusion of 3G mobile communication networks
2012/05/22	Analysis of the role of international network effects on the diffusion of 3G mobile communication networks
2012/03/02	「Analysis of the role of international network effects on the diffusion of 3G mobile communication」

Research Field
2022/09/16	KDDI Foundation KDDI Foundation Award Achievement Award (モバイルOSがモバイルサービス市場に与える影響についての研究)
2013/03	Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Telecom Social Science Award (Analysis of regulatory and network effects on the diffusion of third generation mobile phones.)

Main Courses Taught
Advanced Microeconomic theory
Computational Economics

Belonging society
2010 ～	Econometric　Society
2018/04 ～	American Economic Association
2012	European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
2010 ～ 2018	International Telecommunications Society

Committee and society
2021/10/01 ～	Japan Society of Information and Communication research Editorial Board member
2021/08/27 ～	National Institute of Information and Communications Policy Study group of Information and Communications Policy Economics
2015/03/04 ～	Japan Broadcasting Corporation Committee of Internet business review