Market Design

The Market Design research group leverages behavioral insights to better understand and structure markets to attain preferred outcomes.

Representative Publications

Echenique, Federico, Ruy González, Alistair J. Wilson, and Leeat Yariv. 2022. "Top of the Batch: Interviews and the Match." American Economic Review: Insights, 4 (2): 223-38.

Testing Models of Strategic Uncertainty: Equilibrium Selection in Repeated Games. Emanuel Vespa, Alistair Wilson, Taylor Weidman. R&R at Journal of the European Economic Association (April 2021)

Araujo, Felipe A., Stephanie W. Wang, and Alistair J. Wilson. 2021. "The Times They Are A-Changing: Experimenting with Dynamic Adverse Selection." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13 (4): 1-22.

Jonathan Lafky, Alistair J. Wilson, Experimenting with incentives for information transmission: Quantity versus quality, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 169, 2020, Pages 314-331, ISSN 0167-2681, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.11.026.

Vespa, E. and Wilson, A.J. (2019), Experimenting with the transition rule in dynamic games. Quantitative Economics, 10: 1825-1849. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE687

Alistair J. Wilson, Hong Wu, At-will relationships: How an option to walk away affects cooperation and efficiency, Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 102, 2017, Pages 487-507, ISSN 0899-8256, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2017.02.007.

Echenique, F., Wilson, A.J. and Yariv, L. (2016), Clearinghouses for two-sided matching: An experimental study. Quantitative Economics, 7: 449-482. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE496

Contact Information

Behavioral Economics Design InitiativeUniversity of Pittsburgh4700 Wesley W. Posvar Hall230 South Bouquet StreetPittsburgh, PA 15260Email: bedi@pitt.edu