Takeshi Murooka's Website

日本語の著書・論文・一般向け記事等 (Articles in Japanese)

講義情報・学生指導等 (Teaching)

Workshops

Working Papers

• Yoko Okuyama, Takeshi Murooka, and Shintaro Yamaguchi "Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap," updated in August 2025.

• "Procrastination Markets" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), updated in May 2024, reject and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy.

• "Bayesian Learning When Players Are Misspecified about Others" (with Yuichi Yamamoto), updated in April 2025, revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy.

• "Convergence and Steady-State Analysis under Higher-Order Misspecification" (with Yuichi Yamamoto), updated in August 2023.

• "A Personal-Equilibria Model of Insecurity" (with Botond Kőszegi and George Loewenstein), updated in November 2021.

• "Procrastination and Learning about Self-Control" (with Else Gry Bro Christensen), updated in March 2020.

• "Zero Prices: Optimal Pricing of Experience Goods under Consumer Loss Aversion," in preparation.

• "Deception under Competitive Intermediation," updated in January 2015.

Refereed Publications (English)

• "Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety" (with Takuro Yamashita), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming.

• "Multitasking and Leadership in Optimal Incentive Contracts" (with Kohei Daido), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, 106824, 2025.

• "Informal Incentives and Labour Markets" (with Matthias Fahn), Economic Journal, 135 (665), 144-179, 2025.

• "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.

• "Consumer Exploitation and Notice Periods" (with Marco A. Schwarz), Economics Letters, 174, 89-92, 2019.

• "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.

• "Team Incentives and Reference-Dependent Preferences" (with Kohei Daido), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 25 (4), 958-989, 2016.

• "Exploitative Innovation" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8 (1), 1-23, 2016. [Lead article.]

  • Non-technical research highlight by the American Economic Association.

• "Task Assignment under Agent Loss Aversion" (with Kohei Daido, Kimiyuki Morita, and Hiromasa Ogawa), Economics Letters, 121 (1), 35-38, 2013.

• "A Note on Credible Spatial Preemption in an Entry-Exit Game," Economics Letters, 118 (1), 26-28, 2013.

• Tomomi Tanaka and Takeshi Murooka "Self-Control Problems and Consumption-Saving Decisions: Theory and Empirical Evidence," Japanese Economic Review, 63 (1), 23-37, 2012. [Survey article.]

• "Randomized Strategy Equilibrium in the Action Commitment Game with Costs of Leading" (with Toshihiro Matsumura and Akira Ogawa), Operations Research Letters, 39 (2), 115-117, 2011.

Book Chapter (English)

• "Deception and Consumer Protection in Competitive Markets" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), in The Pros and Cons of Consumer Protection (ed. Dan Sjöblom). Stockholm: Swedish Competition Authority, 44-76, 2012.