JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORIST
Current position:
Professor of Economics & Game Theory, Kyoto University.

TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL
2021-Professor, Institute of Economic
Research, Kyoto University.

2018-21

Associate Prof., Institute ofEconomic Research, Kyoto Univ.

2016-17

Overseas Research Affiliate, Schoolof Economics, University of Sydney.

2011-16

Lecturer, School of Economics,
University of Sydney.

2009-11

Fellow & Director of Undergraduate
Studies, St. Edmund’s College,
University of Cambridge.

2008-11

Bye-Fellow, Downing College,
University of Cambridge.

2004-5

Auditor, Deloitte & Touche LLPRESEARCH INTERESTS> Evolutionary Game Theory> Coalitional Behaviour> Social Learning & Networks> Strategic Information Transmission
The shared intentions agenda
studies collective agency andsocial structure. See the project
page at: sharedintentions.net

EDUCATIONCONTACT2011

PhD Economics, University ofCambridge

Thesistitle

Essays on coalitional behaviour,social learning & strategic
information transmission.

Advisor

Robert Evans

Institute of Economic Research,
Kyoto University,
Yoshida-honmachi,
Sakyo-ku,
Kyoto 606-8501
Japan

2006

MSc Economics, Birkbeck College
London (Distinction)

2005

Part-Qualified Accountant, ACA

2004

BSc Mathematics, University
College London (1st class)jcsnewton@gmail.com
www.jonathannewton.net

WhatsApp: +81 702 632 0542

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JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORISTJOURNAL ARTICLES
1. Coalitional Stochastic Stability, Games & Economic Behavior (2012).
2. Recontracting and stochastic stability in cooperative games, Journal of Economic
Theory (2012).

3. Cheap talk and editorial control, BE Journal of Theoretical Economics (2014).
4. A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems,
Journal of Economic Theory (2015), lead article. Coauthored with Ryoji Sawa.
5. Coalitions, tipping points and the speed of evolution,
Journal of Economic Theory (2015). Coauthored with Simon Angus.
6. Is it a norm to favour your own group?, Experimental Economics (2015).
Coauthored with D.Harris, B.Herrmann, A.Kontoleon.
7. Stochastic stability on general state spaces, Journal of Mathematical Economics(2015).
8. Emergence of shared intentionality is coupled to the advance of cumulative
culture, PLOS – Computational Biology (2015). Coauthored with Simon Angus.
9. Stochastic stability in assignment problems, Journal of Mathematical Economics(2016). Coauthored with Bettina Klaus.
10. Payoff dependent dynamics and coordination games, Economic Theory (2017).
Coauthored with Sung-Ha Hwang.
11. The preferences of Homo Moralis are unstable under evolving assortativity,
International Journal of Game Theory (2017).
12. Shared intentions: the evolution of collaboration, Games & Economic Behavior(2017).

13. Heterogeneity in preferences and behavior in threshold models, Journal ofMechanism and Institution Design (2017). Coauthored with Philip Neary.
14. Conventional contracts, intentional behavior and logit choice: equality without
symmetry, Games & Economic Behavior (2018). Coauthored with Sung-Ha Hwang,Wooyoung Lim, Philip Neary.
15. Evolutionary game theory: a renaissance, Games (2018).
16. Agency Equilibrium, Games (2019).
17. Risk attitudes and risk dominance in the long run, Games & Economic Behavior(2019). Coauthored with Heinrich Nax.

18. Watercooler chat, organizational structure and corporate culture, Games &Economic Behavior (2019). Coauthored with Andrew Wait, Simon Angus.

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JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORISTJOURNAL ARTICLES (CONTINUED)
19. Agency, potential and contagion, Games & Economic Behavior (2020). Coauthoredwith Damian Sercombe.
20. Collaboration leads to cooperation on sparse networks, PLOS – Computational
Biology (2020). Coauthored with Simon Angus.
21. Evolution and Rawlsian social choice in matching, Games & Economic Behavior(2020). Coauthored with Ennio Bilancini, Leonardo Boncinelli.
22. When does ambiguity fade away?, Economics Letters (2020). Coauthored with
Filippo Massari.
23. Conventions under heterogeneous behavioural rules, Review of Economic Studies(2021). Supplementary appendices.
24. Maximality in the farsighted stable set revisited, published as Corrigendum toMaximality in the farsighted stable set, Econometrica (2021).
25. Geographic diversity in economic publishing, Journal of Economic Behavior &Organization (2021).
26. Stochastic dynamics and Edmonds’ algorithm, Journal of Dynamics & Games(2022). Coauthored with William Sandholm.
27. Deep and shallow thinking in the long run, Theoretical Economics (2022).
Coauthored with Heinrich Nax.
REVIEWS FOR AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

The spread of cooperative strategies on grids with random asynchronous
updating, Internet Math (2017), Duffy & Jannsen.

College admissions with entrance exams: centralized versus decentralized,
Journal of Economic Theory (2018), Hafalir, Hakimov, Kubler & Kurino.

Mutually best matches, Mathematical Social Sciences (2018), Salonen & Salonen.

Finding a stable matching under type specific minimum quotas, Journal ofEconomic Theory (2018), Tomoeda.

Strategy-proofness of worker-optimal matching with continuously transferableutility, Games & Economic Behavior (2018), Jagadeesan, Kominers & RheingansYoo.

Gaming the deferred acceptance when message spaces are restricted,
Mathematical Social Sciences (2018), Marutani.

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JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORISTREVIEWS FOR AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (CONTINUED)
Stable matching in large economies, Econometrica (2019), Che, Kim & Kojima.

A necessary and sufficient condition for uniqueness consistency in the stable
marriage matching problem, Economics Letters (2019), Karpov.

Two problems in max-size popular matchings, Algorithmica (2019), Brandl &Kavitha.

The evolution of collaboration in symmetric 2x2 games with imperfectrecognition of types, Games & Economic Behavior (2019), Rusch.

The core of roommate problems: size and rank-fairness within matched pairs,International Journal of Game Theory (2019), Jaramillo, Kayı & Klijn.

Sequential versus simultaneous assignment systems and two applications,
Economic Theory (2019), Dur & Kesten.

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Dynamic matching pennies on networks, International Journal of Game Theory(2019), Cao, Qin, Yang & Zhang.

Bounding the cop number of a graph by its genus, Acta Mathematica
Universitatis Comenianae (2019), Bowder, Erde, Lehner & Pitz.

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Maximality in the farsighted stable set, Econometrica (2019), Ray & Vohra.

School choice under partial fairness, Theoretical Economics (2019), Dur, Gitmez &Yilmaz.

Convergence in games with continua of equilibria, Journal of Mathematical
Economics (2020), Bervoets & Faure.

Cops and robbers on graphs of bounded diameter, SIAM Journal of Discrete
Mathematics (2020), Hosseini, Knox & Mohar.

The hat guessing number of graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B(2020), Alon, Ben-Eliezer, Shangguan & Tamo.

Fashion game on graphs, Discrete Optimization (2020), Shen & Lin.

Constrained stability in two-sided matching markets, Social Choice & Welfare(2020), Afacan & Dur.

Game theoretical modelling of a dynamically evolving network II: target
sequences of score, Journal of Dynamics & Games (2020), Cannings & Broom.

Peg solitaire on Cartesian products of graphs, Graphs Combin. (2021), Kreh & DeWiljes.

A bargaining set for roommate problems, Journal of Mathematical Economics(2021), Atay, Mauleon & Vannetelbosch.

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JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORISTREVIEWS FOR AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (CONTINUED)
Maker-breaker percolation games II: escaping to infinity, Journal ofCombinatorial Theory, Series B (2021), Day & Falgas-Ravry.

Connector-breaker games on random boards, The Electronic Journal ofCombinatorics (2021), Clemens, Kirsch & Mogge.

OTHER PAPERS

Learning and equilibrium in misspecified models, coauthored with FilippoMassari.

What should economic agents learn in misspecified environments, coauthoredwith Filippo Massari.

Intentions and game theory.

Combining strictly asymmetric choice rules.

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Limitations of network games – a brief discussion

GRANTS
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (awarded by Australian Research Council).
“Bank regulation: the implications of interconnectedness and adaptive behaviour.”
Value :

AUD 368,777

Duration:

2013-15

KAKENHI B (awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).
“Evolution, misspecification and equilibrium.”
Value :

JPY 10,270,000

Duration:

2021-24

INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCES.
A list of invited talks is available here.
I have also carried out extended visits to University of Oxford, University of Lausanne,
University of Kyoto (before I decided to move here) and Monash University.

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JONATHAN NEWTONECONOMIST & GAME THEORISTOTHER INFORMATION
Languages: Some ability with French, Spanish and Japanese.
Software:Capable with Microsoft Office, Mathematica, MatLab.

Fun:

Used to debate and be heavily involved in politics, hence decent
public speaking and lecturing skills.
Completed NVQ course in full body massage, 2000.
The outdoors, hiking, trail running, gym training, coffee, writing
and reading, especially fiction and philosophy.

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