Juuso Toikka

Juuso Toikka
  • Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
  • Associate Professor of Economics

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    330 Vance Hall
    3733 Spruce Street
    Philadelphia PA 19104

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Overview

Juuso Toikka is an Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School and an Associate Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in the field of microeconomic theory, specifically in game theory, contract theory, and the economics of intellectual property rights. A central theme in Professor Toikka’s work is the focus on the role of information in shaping cooperation and competition in dynamic economic and social situations. His recent research studies incentive contracts that guarantee good performance in a wide range of settings.

Professor Toikka received his PhD from the Stanford University in 2010. Prior to joining Wharton in 2018, he was first an Assistant Professor and then the Gary Loveman Career Development Associate Professor of Economics at MIT. Toikka has also taught as a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. He is currently an associate editor for the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, and Theoretical Economics, and has also served in that role for the Journal of the European Economic Association.

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Past Courses

  • BEPP2840 - Game Thy For Bus & Life

    The objective of this course is to make you more skilled in strategic reasoning. Strategic situations permeate our lives and we will examine many such situations through the lens of game theory. The course is composed of game-theoretic concepts, applications, and experiential learning. The bulk of the applications are to business situations including product entry, bargaining, managerial incentive contracts, and network effects. Given the ubiquitous presence of strategic situations in human societies, applications will also extend to politics, war, sports, history, crime, theology, and every day life, and cover such topics as steroid use in sports, traffic congestion, corruption, racial discrimination, and sexual harassment. Students will regularly participate in experiments involving strategic reasoning, and form teams to compete in a simulated industry environment.

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Latest Research

Tianjiao Dai and Juuso Toikka (2022), Robust Incentives for Teams, Econometrica, 90 (4), pp. 1583-1613.
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