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Takeshi Murooka(室岡健志)
CV (updated in April 2022)
Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP)
Osaka University
Email: murooka (at) osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp
Working Papers
"A Personal-Equilibria Model of Insecurity" (with Botond Kőszegi and George Loewenstein), updated in November 2021.
"Procrastination Markets" (with Paul Heidhues and Botond Kőszegi), updated in July 2021.
"Misspecified Bayesian Learning by Strategic Players: First-Order Misspecification and Higher-Order Misspecification" (with Yuichi Yamamoto), updated in December 2021.
"Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety" (with Takuro Yamashita), updated in February 2022.
"Adverse Selection and Bounded Rationality: An Impossibility Theorem" (with Takuro Yamashita), updated in October 2021.
"Informal Incentives and Norms on Labor Markets" (with Matthias Fahn), updated in March 2022.
"Procrastination and Learning about Self-Control" (with Else Gry Bro Christensen), updated in March 2020.
"The Provision of High-Powered Incentives under Multitasking" (with Kohei Daido), in preparation.
"Zero Prices: Optimal Pricing of Experience Goods under Consumer Loss Aversion," in preparation.
"Deception under Competitive Intermediation," updated in January 2015.
Refereed Publications
"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.
"Self-Control Problems and Consumption-Saving Decisions: Theory and Empirical Evidence" (with Tomomi Tanaka), 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
"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.