HIROKI NISHIMURA

http://hirokinishimura.net/
hiroki.nishimura@ucr.edu

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE

Address Department of Economics, 3128 Sproul Hall,

University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
Phone 951-827-4975 (office), 917-449-2094 (mobile)

Position
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Riverside, 2013-Present
Visiting Associate in Economics, California Institute of Technology, 2013-Present

Education
PhD. in Economics, New York University, 2013
Committee: Efe Ok (Chair), Debraj Ray, David Pearce
B.A. in Economics, Kyoto University, 2006

Research Fields
Primary fields: Microeconomic theory, Decision theory
Secondary fields: Behavioral economics, Experimental economics

Teaching Experience
UC Riverside 2013 Graduate: Microeconomic Theory
Undergraduate: Intermediate Microeconomics
NYU 2010-2012 Graduate: Mathematics for Economics, Teaching Assistant

Other Employment
Summer 2010 International Monetary Fund, Summer intern

Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships

2010-2012 C.V. Starr Research Fellowship
2007-2011 MacCracken Fellowship
2007-2009 Japan-IMF Scholarship for Advanced Studies

Professional Activities
Seminars and Conference Presentations
April 2014 Canadian Economic Theory Conference
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Riverside
January 2014 University of Southern California
June 2013 Yokohama National University
February 2013 University of California, Riverside
January 2013 Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Bocconi University
August 2012 EconCon at Princeton University
October 2012 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference at Washington
University in St. Louis
Referee
Abstract and Applied Analysis, Econometrica, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of
Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Linear Algebra and its Applications,
Theoretical Economics

Publications

Non-Existence of Continuous Choice Functions (with Efe A. Ok), Journal of Economic Theory,
Forthcoming.

Solvability of Variational Inequalities on Hilbert Lattices (with Efe A. Ok), Mathematics of Operations
Research, 37, 608-625 (2012).

Working Papers

The Transitive Core: Inference of Welfare from Nontransitive Preference Relations (Job Market Paper)

A Unified Approach to Revealed Preference Theory: The Case of Rational Choice (with Efe A. Ok and
John Quah)

Individual Rationality in Collective Choice

Last updated: May 2014