News:

• "Social Norms and the Rise of Fringe Candidates" (joint with Emre Aytimur) is accepted at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. [January 2026]

• New working paper: "Population Dynamics of Conspiracy Thinking" (joint with R. Emre Aytimur) [November 2025]

• "Dynamic Dilemma of Political Trust" (Joint with Satoshi Kasamatsu) is accepted at Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. [November 2025]

• New working paper: "When State Concessions Backfire: Information Cascades, Protest Mobilization, and Authoritarian Survival" (joint with Yuki Takagi and Hans H. Tung) [October 2025]

• "Public Goods Provision, Preferences over Public Finance, and Distributional Effects" (joint with Tomoko Matsumoto and Atsushi Yamagishi) is accepted at Japanese Economic Review. [October 2025]

• New working paper: "Partisan Disbelief in Polarized Societies: Evidence from South Korea and the U.S."  (Joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Yesola Kweon, and Yuko Kasuya) [October 2025]

• "Polarization as Pluralistic Ignorance" (joint with Kenjio Asami) is accepted at Journal of Public Economic Theory. [October 2025]

• New working paper: "Trust in Politicians and Preferences over False Positive and Negative Errors in News Reports"  (Joint with Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen) [August 2025]

• "Watchdog versus Yes Man: News Source and Media Competition" (joint with Susumu Sato) is accepted at Games and Economic Behaviors. [June 2025]

• "Responsive Parties and Political Winner’s Curse" (joint with R. Emre Aytimur) is accepted at Economics Letters. [June 2025]

• "Inequality, Conspiracy Theories, and Redistribution" is accepted at European Journal of Political Economy. [April 2025]

• New working paper: "Polarization as Pluralistic Ignorance" (joint with Kenjiro Asami) [January 2025]

• New working paper: "Welfare Burden and Preferences for Immigrants' Types" (joint with Tomoko Matsumoto)[November 2024]

• New working paper: "Responsive Parties and Political Winner's Curse" (joint with R. Emre Aytimur) [November 2024] 

• New working paper: "Political Trust and Preferences for Redistribution: Wasteful Spending and Plutocratic Influence" (joint with Tomoko Matsumoto) [October 2024]

• Our paper, "Self-Benefits, Fiscal Risk, and Political Support for the Public Healthcare System" (joint with Tomoko Matsumoto), is accepted at European Journal of Political Economy. [August 2024]

• New working paper: "Public Perceptions of False Positive and Negative Errors in News Reports" (joint with Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen) [May 2024]

• New working paper: "Social Norms and the Rise of Fringe Candidates" (joint with R. Emre Aytimur) [April 2024]

• Our paper, "Does Informative Opposition Influence Electoral Accountability?" (joint with Satoshi Kasamatsu), is accepted at Quarterly Journal of Political Science. [April 2024]

• New working paper: "Inequality, Conspiracy Theories, and Redistribution" [March 2024]

• New working paper: "Affluence and Influence under Tax Competition: Income Bias in Political Attention" (joint with Satoshi Kasamatsu and Taiki Susa) [September 2023]

• Our paper, "Endogenous Political Trust and Electoral Accountability" (joint with Satoshi Kasamatsu), is accepted at the Journal of Politics. [May 2023]

• New working paper: "Self-Benefits, Fiscal Risk, and Political Support for the Social Security System" (joint with Tomoko Matsumoto) [February 2023]