CV

Kei Ikegami

Lecturer, Yokohama City University
Email: ikegami.kei0120 [at] gmail.com
Website: keiikegami.github.io

Employment

• Yokohama City University, Lecturer, April 2026–present
• University of Tokyo, Research Assistant Professor at UTMD, 2025–2026
• New York University, Teaching Assistant in Econometrics, 2021–2023
• CyberAgent, Research Intern, 2023
• Center for Research and Education in Program Evaluation (CREPE), Trainee, 2018–2020
• Preferred Networks, Intern and Part-time Engineer, 2018–2019

Education

• PhD in Economics, New York University, 2020–2025
• MA in Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2018–2020
• BA in Economics, The University of Tokyo, 2013–2018

Research Fields

• Industrial Organization
• Econometrics
• Market Design
• Auctions and Matching

Publications

• Kei Ikegami, Kyohei Okumura, and Takumi Yoshikawa,
  A Simple, Fast, and Safe Mediator for Congestion Management,
  AAAI 2020 (Oral and Poster presentation)

• Kei Ikegami, Ken Onishi, and Naoki Wakamori,
  Competition-Driven Physician-Induced Demand,
  Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 79, September 2021

Working Papers

• Procuring Hunting Effort: Structural Estimation and Optimal Contract Design
  New draft: March 17, 2026

• Exposure Design for Two-Sided Platforms
  New draft: January 8, 2026

• Bargaining over Leasing Contracts
  New draft coming soon

• Evaluating the Efficiency of Regulation in Matching Markets with Distributional Disparities
  with Atsushi Iwasaki, Akira Matsushita, and Kyohei Okumura
  New draft: July 7, 2025
  Accepted for EC 2025 (Exemplary Paper Award, Empirics Track)

• Joint Venture Formation in Procurement Auctions
  with Ken Onishi and Naoki Wakamori
  New draft: October 23, 2024

Work in Progress

• Wage Stagnation in Daycare Industry: A Two-Sided Market Perspective
  with Kan Kuno

Selected Presentations

Upcoming

• IIOC 2026, Boston, April 9–12, 2026
• SSCW 2026, Tokyo, June 13–16, 2026

Recent

• 2025: ESWC, EC 2025, HKUST(GZ), Penn State, IIOC
• 2024: UTMD Rising Stars in Market Design, APIOC, JEMIOW, NYU seminars, AEA Annual Meeting
• 2023: Yokohama National University, Otaru University of Commerce, JEMIOW, KCL (QPE Workshop), NYU Student Econometrics Lunch
• 2022: APIOC, Waseda University Applied Econometrics Conference

Teaching

Current Courses

• Econometrics (Undergraduate), Yokohama City University
• Econometrics (Graduate), Yokohama City University

Previous Teaching

• Econometrics (PhD), New York University
• Econometrics (MS in Quantitative Economics), New York University

Honors and Fellowships

• MacCracken Fellowship, 2020–2025
• MITOU Advanced, 2019–2020
• CREPE Scholarship Program, 2018–2020
• Distinguished Graduation Thesis

Skills

• Programming: Python, R, Julia, Stata
• Languages: Japanese (native), English (fluent)
• Citizenship: Japan