Mitsuru Igami

Mitsuru (Michi) Igami specializes in the area of Empirical Industrial Organization. His research focuses on strategic industry dynamics, such as (1) innovation/productivity, (2) mergers & acquisitions, and (3) cartels/collusion.

Fields of Interest

• Industrial Organization
• International Trade
• Economics of Innovation
• Applied Microeconomics
• Applied Econometrics

Education

• Ph.D., Global Economics and Management, UCLA, June 2012
• M.A., Economics, UCLA, June 2009
• M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo, March 2007
• B.A., Latin American Studies, University of Tokyo, March 2002

Companies

• Associate Professor Of Economics Yale University (2012)
• Visiting Associate Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017 — 2018)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Stanford University (2014 — 2015)
• Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant UCLA Anderson School of Management (2008 — 2011)
• Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant University of Tokyo (2005 — 2007)
• Analyst Inter American Development Bank (2006 — 2006)
• Associate Salomon Smith Barney (2002 — 2004)

Publications

1. “Measuring the Incentive to Collude: The Vitamin Cartels, 1990–1999” (with Takuo Sugaya), Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
2. “Privatization and Productivity in China,” (with Yuyu Chen, Masayuki Sawada, and Mo Xiao), December 2021, RAND Journal of Economics, 52 (4): 884–916.
3. “Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1996–2016,” (with Kosuke Uetake), November 2020, Review of Economic Studies, 87 (6): 2672–2702.
4. “Artificial Intelligence as Structural Estimation: Deep Blue, Bonanza, and AlphaGo”, September 2020, Econometrics Journal, 23 (3): S1–S24.
5. “Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator? Evidence from the Hard Disk Drive Industry” (with Jai Subrahmanyam), September 2019, Japanese Economic Review, 70 (3): 308–330.
6. “Industry Dynamics of Offshoring: The Case of Hard Disk Drives,” February 2018, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10 (1): 67–101.
7. “Estimating the Innovator’s Dilemma: Structural Analysis of Creative Destruction in the Hard Disk Drive Industry, 1981–1998,” June 2017, Journal of Political Economy, 125 (3): 798–847.
8. “Unobserved Heterogeneity in Dynamic Games: Cannibalization and Preemptive Entry of Hamburger Chains in Canada,” (with Nathan Yang),July 2016, Quantitative Economics, 7 (2): 483–521.
9. “Market Power in International Commodity Trade: the Case of Coffee,” June 2015, Journal of Industrial Economics, 63 (2): 225–248.
10. “Does Big Drive Out Small? Entry, Exit, and Differentiation in the Supermarket Industry,” January 2011, Review of Industrial Organization, 38 (1): 1–21.