Faculty : Mark Walker

	Eller Professor of Economics Economics Department Head
	Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory and Experimental Economics
	Phone:	520.621.6155
	Fax:	520.621.8450
	Email:	mwalker@eller.arizona.edu
	Website:	http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mwalker/
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 401M

Current Research

Professor Walker's current research focuses on the effects of experience, expertise, and learning in strategic decision making.

Recent Research Papers

• "Experienced Bidders in Online Second-Price Auctions," with R.Garratt and J. Wooders, 2004.
• "Unobserved Heterogeneity and Equilibrium: An Experimental Study of Bayesian and Adaptive Learning in Normal Form Games," with Jason Shachat, Journal of Economic Theory, 2004.
• "Minimax Play at Wimbledon," with John Wooders, American Economic Review. 2001.
• "An Experiment to evaluate Bayesian learning of Nash equilbrium play," with James Cox and Jason Shachat, Games and Economic Behavior, 2001.

Other Selected Publications

• "On the Nonexistence of a Dominant-Strategy Mechanism for Making Optimal Public Decisions," Econometrica, 1980.
• "A Simple Incentive-Compatible Scheme for Attaining Lindahl Allocations," Econometrica, 1981.
• "The Free Rider Problem: Experimental Evidence," with Oliver Kim, Public Choice, 1984.
• "On the Generic Non-Optimality of Dominant-Strategy Allocation Mechanisms: A General Theorem that Includes Pure Exchange Economies," with Leonid Hurwicz, Econometrica, 1990.