Michiko Ogaku

I am an Associate Professor of Insurance at Nagasaki University. My research focuses on Mechanism/Information Design and Insurance.

Associate Professor

Faculty of Economics, Nagasaki University, Japan

Education:

Ph.D. University of Tsukuba (Japan), 2014

Research interest:

Contract Theory, Economics of Information, Economics of Risk and Uncertainty

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Working Papers:

1. Group Formation in Risk-sharing Arrangements: A Simple Analysis of the Effect of Stop-loss Protection pdf
   submitted

2. Facilitating Trust and Trustworthiness: The Impact of Mediation pdf
   joint with Saori Chiba, submitted

3. The Role of Information Design in Facilitating Trust and Trustworthiness [pdf]
   joint with Saori Chiba, under revision

4. The Incentive Effect of Full and Garbled Reporting: Theory and Experiment pdf
   joint with Yukihiko Funaki, Edward Halim and Yohanes Eko Riyanto

5. Insuring uninsurable income pdf
   The previous version of this paper was circulated under the title ``Mutual insurance for uninsurable income”.

Publications:

1. Monopoly, Heterogeneous Beliefs and Imperfect Information: The Insurance Market
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-10, Jan. 2020

2. Managerial incentive problems: The role of multi-signals pdf
   Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 106-111, Mar. 2015.

3. Would shareholders in firms with Japanese governance mechanisms benefit from the use of annual incentive plans? pdf
   Journal of Management Accounting, Japan, Supplement 2, pp. 65-79, Dec. 2013.