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
Economic Science Laboratory Director
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992
Current Courses
- ECON 406, Introduction to Experimental Economics
- ECON 501C (Ph. D. core): The Economics of Information
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 Heterogeneous Entry Costs," (with Diego Moreno) forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics.
- “An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price Under Private and Common Values” (with Quazi Shahriar) forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior.
- “Equilibrium Play in Matches: Binary Markov Games” (with Mark Walker and Rabah Amir) forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior.
- “Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab," Econometrica 78 (2010), 1143-1154.
- “Decentralized Trade Mitigates the Lemons Problem” (with Diego Moreno) International Economic Review 51 (2010), 383-399.
- “Auctions with a Buy Price” (with Stan Reynolds) Economic Theory 38 (2009), 9-39.
Other Selected Publications
- "An Experimental Study of Communication and Coordination in Noncooperative Games," (with Diego Moreno) Games and Economic Behavior 24 (1998), 47-76.
- “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.
- Reputation in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay (with Dan Houser), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 15 (2006), 353-369.
