Minoru Osawa
Curriculum Vitae(Last updated: October 19, 2020)

Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
Address: Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 JAPAN
Email: osawa@kier.kyoto-u.ac.jp / osawa.minoru@gmail.com
Web: sites.google.com/view/minoruosawa

E DUCATION
Ph.D. in Information Sciences, Tohoku University
M.A. in Information Sciences, Tohoku University
B.A. in Engineering, Tohoku University
Born:

September 2016
March 2014
March 2014
March 1990

A CADEMIC E MPLOYMENTAssistant Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research,
Kyoto University
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering,Tohoku UniversityApril 2020 – PresentOctober 2016 – March 2020

R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
Urban and regional economics; Transportation; Evolutionary game theory.

R ESEARCH
Refereed Publications
1. “Break and sustain bifurcations of S N -invariant equidistant economy,” with Kiyohiro Ikeda,José Maria Gaspar, and Hiroki Aizawa.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, to appear.
2. “Equilibrium reﬁnement for a model of non-monocentric internal structures of cities: A potential game approach,” with Takashi Akamatsu.
Journal of Economic Theory, 187, 105025, 2020.
3. “First-best dynamic assignment of commuters with endogenous heterogeneities in a corridor
network,” with Haoran Fu and Takashi Akamatsu,
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 117, pp.811–831, 2018.
4. “Harris and Wilson (1978) model revisited: The spatial period-doubling bifurcation in an
urban retail model,” with Takashi Akamatsu and Yuki Takayama,
Journal of Regional Science, 57(3), pp.442–466, 2017.
Working Papers
1. “Endogenous agglomeration in a many-region world,” with Takashi Akamatsu, Tomoya
Mori, and Yuki Takayama. (Previous version: “Spatial scale of agglomeration and dispersion: Theoretical foundations and empirical implications,” RIETI Discussion Paper 17E-125)
2. “Can a herd immunity strategy become a viable option against COVID-19? A model-based
analysis on social acceptability and feasibility,” with Takashi Akamatsu, Takeshi Nagae,
Koki Satsukawa, Takara Sakai, Daijiro Mizutani.
3. “How social interactions matter when distance dies?,” with José Maria Gaspar.
4. “Stochastic stability of agglomeration patterns in an urban retail model,” with Takashi Akamatsu and Yosuke Kogure.
5. “Perturbed pitchfork bifurcation in a population game: Application to economic geography,” with Kiyohiro Ikeda, José Maria Gaspar, and Yuki Takayama.
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6. “Time evolution of city distributions in Germany: Group-theoretic spectrum analysis,” withKiyohiro Ikeda and Yuki Takayama. Submitted to a journal.

H ONORS , R ESEARCH G RANTS (PI O NLY ), AND F ELLOWSHIPS
1. Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (19K14735), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (April 2019 – March 2021).
2. Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (17K14735), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(April 2017 – March 2019).
3. Grant-in-Aid, Joint Usage and Research Center, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University (April 2017 – March 2018).
4. Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(April 2014 – September 2016).
5. 2017 Kometani–Sasaki Award (for doctoral theses), Institute of Systems Science Research.
6. 2016 Doboku Gakkai Ronbun Shourei Shou, Japan Society of Civil Engineers.
7. 2014 Doboku Gakkai Ronbun Shou, Japan Society of Civil Engineers. (Joint with T. Akamatsu, T. Nagae, and H. Yamaguchi)

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