Yuki Tamura wins the 2026 Young Female Researcher Award from the Japanese Economic Association
In 2026, the Japanese Economic Association (JEA), awarded Yuki Tamura (CREST-École polytechnique) the JEA Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company.
Since 2024, Yuki Tamura is an Assistant Professor in Economics at CREST-École polytechnique. She obtained her PhD from the University of Rochester in 2021. Prior to her position at CREST, Yuki Tamura was a post-doctoral associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research lies at the intersection of market design, social choice, game theory, and political economy. Her work focuses on resource allocation and reallocation problems under various preference structures, developing normative and strategic mechanisms that balance fairness and efficiency in assignments. In addition, her research extends to political economy and voting models, analyzing strategic behavior, polarization, and electoral competition. Overall, her work advances mechanism design theory by clarifying how institutional rules shape outcomes in matching, redistribution, and collective decision-making contexts.
The Japanese Economic Association (JEA) is the main professional organization for economists in Japan and brings together researchers working across all areas of economics, from theory to applied and empirical work. It provides an important platform for the presentation and discussion of new research, notably through its biannual conferences, which attract both Japanese and international scholars. The association also publishes the Japanese Economic Review, an internationally recognized academic journal. Through its conferences, publications, and academic network, the JEA plays a central role in supporting economic research and fostering collaboration within Japan and beyond.
Since 2020, the Japanese Economic Association established the JEA Award for Young Female Researchers sponsored by the Nippon Life Insurance Company to support young female researchers who are expected to become role models for the next generation. Each year, the prize is awarded to female researchers with outstanding research achievements within ten years of receiving their final degrees. In 2026, the award was conferred to Yuki Tamura for her significant contributions to the matching theory in the context of the exchange of indivisible goods. Yuki Tamura realized detailed theoretical analyses and characterizations of the Top Trading Cycle mechanism and its alternatives.