Hello! I am Shunsuke Ishii (石井 俊輔 in Japanese), an incoming Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at London Business School, Economics Subject Area. I also work as a research assistant for ERATO KOJIMA Market Design Project at the University of Tokyo, as well as for the University of Tokyo Market Design Center (UTMD).

I hold an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, which I obtained in July 2026. Prior to that, I graduated in July 2025 from the University of Edinburgh with MA (Hons) in Economics with First Class Honours (which is an undergraduate degree, following a Scottish convention).

Fields of Interests: Macroeconomics, Labour Economics

Contact: s.ishii [at] lse.ac.uk

Research

Are Final Market Prices Sufficient for Information Aggregation? Evidence from Last-Minute Dynamics in Parimutuel Betting [arXiv] [BibTeX] (Last update: 7 July 2026; First version: 18 September 2025)

• Resubmitted after R&R requested from The Economic Journal.
• Coauthored with Hiroaki Hanyu, Suguru Otani, and Kazuhiro Teramoto.
• Gave a presentation at the 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan in December 2025. Received a Young Scholar Prize (Shōreishō).

Employment

• (Incoming) Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant, London Business School, September 2026 - August 2028
  • Economics Subject Area.
• Research Assistant, ERATO Kojima Market Design Project and University of Tokyo Market Design Center, August 2024 - Present
  • Part-time and mostly remote.

Education

• MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics with Distinction, The London School of Economics and Political Science, August 2025 - July 2026
  • Core modules: EC487 Advanced Microeconomics, EC417 Advanced Macroeconomics, and EC484 Econometric Analysis.
  • Elective module: EC424 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations.
• MA (Hons) in Economics with First Class Honours (undergraduate degree), The University of Edinburgh, September 2021 - July 2025
  • Dissertation titled “Jobless Unemployed Workers and Temporary Layoff Workers on Search and Not on Search for a New Job in the US Labour Market”, supervised by Prof Jesper Bagger.
  • 3rd-year undergraduate exchange at the University of British Columbia, September 2023 - April 2024.
  • 2024-25 Undergraduate Prize from the School of Economics for obtaining the class top mark in a course Advanced Mathematical Economics.
  • School Prize of Top Performers in Statistical Methods for Economics from the School of Economics for being one of the top three performance in a second-year compulsory course in introductory econometrics.

Awards

• Encouragement Award (Shōreishō), The Association of Behavioral Economics and Finance, December 2025
  • For my presentation given at the 19th Annual Conference at Waseda University.
• Scholarship for Degree Seeking Students Studying Abroad, Japan Student Services Organization, March 2025
  • Scholarship for my master’s programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, funded by the Japanese government.
• Scholarship and Tuition Support, Japan Student Services Organization, March 2021
  • Scholarship for my four-year undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the Japanese government.

Computing

• R (including tidyverse), Stata, Python, MATLAB, Dynare, \(\LaTeX\), Linux

Languages

• English (fluent), Japanese (native), French (intermediate), Mandarin Chinese (intermediate, hold HSK 5)

Miscellaneous Writings in Japanese

Please have a look on my Japanese page.