Autor: Akira Okada

Editors   Motoshi Suzuki is a professor of international political economy at the Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University. His Ph.D. in international studies was conferred by the University of South Carolina. Before joining Kyoto University in 2002, he taught at Kwansei Gakuin University and the University of North Texas and also served as a visiting professor of the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo and a program officer of the Research Promotion Bureau in the Ministry of Education. Dr. Suzuki has published articles in major international journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Public Choice. His most recent book, Globalization and the Politics of Institutional Reform in Japan, was published by Edward Elgar in 2016. His current research interests lie in international political economy in the Asia-Pacific and Japanese political economy.   Akira Okada is a professor at the Institute of Economic Research in Kyoto University. He received his B.A. in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1982, both from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has taught game theory at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Saitama University, Kyoto University, and Hitotsubashi University. Dr. Okada has served as associate editor of International Journal of Game Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, and International Journal of Economic Theory, and as the editor-in-chief of Japanese Economic Review. He acted as the president of the Japanese Economic Association in 2014−2015. He has visited several academic institutions, including Northwestern University, the University of Bielefeld (Zi F), the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, and the University of Bonn. Akira Okada’s research fields are game theory, bargaining theory, public choice, microeconomics, and experimental economics. In particular, he has investigated economic behavior and social order in human society using mathematical and experimental methodologies of game theory. He is currently working on various cooperative mechanisms such as group formation, bargaining, contract, institutions, and evolution through which goal-seeking interdependent agents can improve their welfare, overcoming conflicts. He has published many articles on game theory and its applications in academic journals such as American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Theory.