John Wooders

John Wooders joined NYU Abu Dhabi in 2016 and has held appointments as a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Professor and Freshwater Group Fellow at the University of Arizona. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Public Economic Theory, Economics Letters, the International Game Theory Review, the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and the Journal of Dynamics and Games. He is one of the founding researchers of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design.

Wooders has published in the top international journals, including Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and as well as numerous papers in Games and Economic Behavior and other leading journals. A distinctive feature of his work is that it combines novel theory with the innovative use of data from the field and the laboratory to understand and predict real-world behavior. His celebrated paper “Minimax Play at Wimbledon” (American Economic Review), for example, pioneered the use of data from the field – in this case, professional tennis – to test game theory. Wooders’ research has been supported by significant grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Australian Research Council, and the Fundación BBVA (Spain).

Education:

BS University of Toronto; PhD Cornell University

Research Areas:

Microeconomic Theory, Experimental Economics

Courses Taught

• ECON-GH 5120 Microeconomics 2
• ECON-UH 2010 Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECON-UH 4099 Capstone Project
• SOCSC-UH 1111 Markets
• SOCSC-UH 3210 Advanced Game Theory
• UNIST-GH 5120 Microeconomics 2 Evaluation

Employment:

• September 2016 – Present Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi
• 2020 – Present Co-Director of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design
• 2022 – Present Co-Director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory
• 2020 – 2022 Director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory
• August 2019 – Present Honorary Professor, University of Technology Sydney
• June 2011 – 2019 Distinguished Research Professor, University of Technology
  Sydney. Founding Director of the UTS Behavioral Laboratory.
• August 2004 – June 2011 Professor and Freshwater Group Fellow, University of Arizona
  Director of the Economic Science Lab (2006-2008, 2011-2012)
• August 1999 – July 2004 Associate Professor, University of Arizona.
• August 1991 – July 1999 Assistant Professor, University of Arizona.