معرفی
Daijiro Kawanaka serves as Assistant Professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Commerce since 2023, concurrently holding a Researcher position at the Research Institute of Business Administration. Previously, he held academic roles at Meiji Gakuin University (2022-2023), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2020-2022), and Osaka University (2018-2022).
His research integrates game theory, decision theory, and experimental economics to analyze psychological phenomena including guilt dynamics in principal-agent relationships, sunk-cost fallacy mechanisms, and intrinsic motivation. He employs both theoretical modeling and laboratory experiments to explore how cognitive dissonance, anticipated regret, and social-image concerns shape economic behavior across market design and organizational contexts.
His scientific recognition includes:
- Best Presentation Award (2022) for research on regret aversion and sunk-cost fallacy
- Best Presentation Award (2021) for work on decreasing marginal guilt and psychological contracts
Dr. Kawanaka leads multiple research initiatives:
- Principal Investigator for Insurance behavior under expectation-based model (JILI, 2025-2026)
- Principal Investigator for Experimental approach to bidding behavior (Kyoto Institute, 2024-2025)
- Principal Investigator for Belief Elicitation in Game Experiments (Osaka University, 2023-2024)
- Co-investigator for JSPS public procurement design project (2023-2028)
- Lead researcher for intrinsic motivation studies (2023-2024)
As co-organizer of the Behavioral and Experimental Economics Seminar, he actively fosters academic collaboration while teaching graduate microeconomics and behavioral economics courses at Waseda University.
