Shunto J. Kobayashi

I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at California Institute of Technology with research interests in Empirical Industrial Organization and Econometrics.

My primary research agenda revolves around examining the economic and policy implications arising from the interplay of firms’ strategic behavior, market mechanisms, and information structure. I have focused on the online advertising industry, which presents a rich landscape for my research due to its intricate market mechanism and reliance on online data for advertising.

I will be on the economics job market during the 2023-2024 academic year.

• [curriculum vitae]
• sjkobaya@caltech.edu

Job-Market Paper

• Dynamic Inefficiency in Online Decentralized Advertising Auctions
  with Miguel Alcobendas (Yahoo), draft coming soon

Working Papers

• The Impact of Privacy Measures on Online Advertising Markets
  with M. Alcobendas (Yahoo) , K. Shi (Caltech), and M. Shum (Caltech), new draft coming soon
  • Presentation/extended-abstract at EC’23: Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023
• Model-Agnostic Estimation of Non-Expected Utility Models
  with A. Lucia (Caltech, his job-market paper), draft coming soon

Conference Presentations

• 2023: North American Meeting of the Econometric Society (Los Angeles, presenter)
• 2022: International Industrial Organization Conference (Boston, presenter and discussant)