Satoru Takahashi has won the 2022 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize.  This prize was instituted in 1995 and is awarded each year by the Japanese Economic Association to an outstanding Japanese economist under the age of 45.  Previous winners of the prize have included some of the most prominent economists who hail from Japan, including the macroeconomists Fumio Hayashi (1995) and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (1997), and the game theorist Michihiro Kandori (2002).

Professor Takahashi was commended for his important contributions to economic theory and, in particular, for his work on the emergence of cooperative conventions in dynamic games, the robustness of game equilibria, and the strategic transmission of information.

Professor Takahashi joined the NUS Economics Department in 2012, was promoted to a full professorship in 2016, and currently serves as the Head of Department.   The Nakahara Prize is the second major prize Professor Takahashi has won this year.  Recently, he won the Jiro Enjoji Prize, along with Taisuke Nakata of the University of Tokyo. This prize is given out every three years to outstanding mid-career economists.

JQ, December 23, 2021