He received a B.A. from University of Tokyo in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989. His seminal papers about social norms (1992) and evolutionary game theory (1993) together have received 5,000 citations to date, according to Google Scholar. Kandori serves as the Vice Director of the University of Tokyo Market Design Center.
Kandori, Michihiro (1992). "Repeated Games Played by Overlapping Generations of Players". Review of Economic Studies. 59 (1): 81–92. doi:10.2307/2297926. JSTOR2297926.
Kandori, Michihiro (2002). "Introduction to Repeated Games with Private Monitoring". Journal of Economic Theory. 102 (1): 1–5. doi:10.1006/jeth.2001.2853.
Kandori, Michihiro (2003). "Randomization, Communication, and Efficiency in Repeated Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring". Econometrica. 71 (1): 345–353. doi:10.1111/1468-0262.00398. JSTOR3082049.