Juuso Toikka is Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School and Associate Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at the School 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 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 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.
Toikka is a co-editor of Theoretical Economics, a member of the editorial board at the American Economic Review, and an associate editor of Econometrica, as well as a past associate editor of Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Theoretical Economics.
