Yasuhiro Nakamoto Yasuhiro Nakamoto is a professor in the Faculty of Informatics at Kansai University. He teaches MATLAB to undergraduate students at Kansai University. He holds a Ph.D. (Top Student) in Economics, awarded by Osaka University in 2009. He has worked at Kyushu Sangyo University and Freie Universität Berlin as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. He participated in the 5th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Economics. His research focuses on two main topics. First, in the area of macroeconomic theory, he analyzes the effects of macroeconomic policies on welfare, income distribution, and natural resources, using MATLAB to effectively present the simulation results. Second, in the area of behavioral economics, he studies decision-making, focusing in particular on catastrophe insurance purchase decisions, the role of future simulations in individual decision-making, and goal-setting behavior. In this case, he uses MATLAB for both statistical graphics and statistical analysis. His manuscripts have been published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Environmental and Resource Economics, Economic Theory, Journal of Economics, Economic Letters, and International Tax and Public Economics, etc.