Osaka University
Institute of Social and Economic Research
Professor
Behavioral Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomics
MUROOKA, Takeshi
2014 Ph.D. in Economics, University of California–Berkeley
2009 M.A. in Economics, University of Tokyo
2007 B.A. in Economics, University of Tsukuba
Behavioral Economics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomics
Selected Publications
- "Adverse Selection and Bounded Rationality: An Impossibility Theorem" (with Takuro Yamashita), Japanese Economic Review, 74, 439-444, 2023.
- "Fragile Self-Esteem" (with Botond Kőszegi and George Loewenstein), Review of Economic Studies, 89(4), 2026-2060, 2022.
- "The Timing of Choice-Enhancing Policies" (with Marco A. Schwarz), Journal of Public Economics, 157, 27-40, 2018.
- "Inferior Products and Profitable Deception" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), Review of Economic Studies, 84(1), 323-356, 2017.
- "Exploitative Innovation" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8(1), 1-23, 2016.