John Wooders

Contact Information

• 520.621.6231 office
• 520.621.8450 fax
• jwooders@eller.arizona.edu
• McClelland Hall 401MM

Curriculum Vitae

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Freshwater Professor of Economics

• Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992
  

Current Courses

• ECON 406, Introduction to Experimental Economics

Research Interests

• Microeconomic theory
• Game theory
• Experimental economics

Current Research

Professor Wooders' present research is concerned with the effects of experience and expertise on strategic behavior, game theoretic models of markets in which trade is decentralized, and theoretical models of bidding behavior in Internet auctions.

Recent Research Papers

• “Auctions with a Buy Price” (with Stan Reynolds), to appear in Economic Theory.
• “An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price Under Private and Common Values” (with Quazi Shahriar).
• “Decentralized Trade Mitigates the Lemons Problem” (with Diego Moreno).
• “Behavior in Second-Price Auctions by Highly Experienced eBay Buyers and Sellers” (with Rod Garratt and Mark Walker).

Other Selected Publications

• “One-Way Spillovers, Endogenous Innovator/Imitator Roles and Research Joint Ventures,” (with Rabah Amir) Games and Economic Behavior 31 (2000), 1-25.
• “Minimax Play at Wimbledon,” (with Mark Walker) American Economic Review 91 (2001), 1521-1538.
• “Prices, Delay, and the Dynamics of Trade, (with Diego Moreno),” Journal of Economic Theory 104 (2002), 304-339.
• “Hard and Soft Closes: A Field Experiment on Auction Closing Rules” (with Dan Houser), in Amnon Rapoport and Rami Zwick, Eds., Experimental Business Research, Vol. 2: Economic and Managerial Perspectives (2005).
• “Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay” (with Dan Houser), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 15 (2006), 353-369.