Tom Wilkening

Working Papers

• Market Design for Land Titles: Evidence from Uganda and Kenya (with Gharad Bryan, Jonathan de Quidt, Marijose Silva-Vargas, and Nitin Yadav) [working paper]
• Preventing Search with Defaults (with Andreas Ortman, Dmitry Ryvkin, and Jingjing Zhang) [working paper]
• Managing Shared Understandings in Teams (with Paveenapat Nienattrakul and Patrick Warren) [working paper]

Published Papers

• Protecting Antiquities: A Role for Long-Term Leases? (with Michael Kremer) Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 39(3), pages 127-148, 2025. [open access article] [appendix]
• Robust Recalibration of Aggregate Probability Forecasts Using Meta-Beliefs (with Cem Peker) International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 41(2), pages 613-630, 2025. [article] [wp]
• Using Cross-Domain Expertise to Aggregate Forecasts When Within-Domain Expertise is Unknown (with Piers Howe and Martin Martinie) Decision, vol. 11(1), pages 35-59, 2024 [article]
• Defaults and Cognitive Effort (with Andreas Ortman, Dmitry Ryvkin, and Jingjing Zhang) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, vol. 212(C), pages 1-19, 2023 [open access article]
• Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work (with Yi-Chun Chen, Richard Holden, Takashi Kunimoto, and Yifei Sun) Journal of Political Economy, vol. 131(2), pages 285-387, 2023 [open access article]
• Cognitive Heterogeneity and Complex Belief Elicitation (with Ingrid Burfurd) Experimetnal Economics, vol. 25(2), pages 557-592, 2022 [open access article]
• Hidden experts in the crowd: Using Meta-Predictions to Leverage Expertise in Single-Question Prediction Problems (with Piers Howe and Martin Martinie) Management Science, vol. 68(1), pages 487-508, 2022 [published article] [wp]
• Behavioral Constraints on the Design of Subgame-Perfect Implementation Mechanisms (with Ernst Fehr and Michael Powell) American Economic Review, vol. 111(4), pages 1055-1091, 2021 [article] [wp]
  [Earlier Version with Distribution of Types]
• Using Meta-Predicitons to Identify Experts in the Crowd when Past Performance is Unknown (with Piers Howe and Martin Martinie) PLoS ONE, vol. 15(4), e0232058, 1-11, 2020 [open access article]
• Two-Sided Allocation Problems, Matching with Transfers, and the Impossibility of Ex Post Efficient Trade (with David Delacretaz, Simon Loertscher, and Leslie Marx) Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 179(1), 416-454, 2019 [article] [wp]
• Experimental Guidance for Eliciting Beliefs with the Stochastic Becker-DeGroot-Marschak Mechanism (with with Ingrid Burfurd) Journal of the Economic Science Association, vol. 4(1), 15-28, 2018 [article] [wp]
• The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation – An Empirical investigation (with Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr, and Richard Holden) Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 16(1), 232-274, 2018 [article] [wp]
• Information and the Persistence of Private-Order Contract Enforcement Institutions: An Experimental Analysis European Economic Review, vol. 89(C), 193-215, 2016 [open access article]
• Evaluating the Impact of Visualization of Wildfire Hazard Upon Decision-Making Uncertainty (with Lisa Cheong, Susane Bleisch, Allison Kealy, Kevin Tolhurst, and matt Duckham) international Journal of Geographical Information Science, vol. 30(7), 1377-1404, 2016 [article]
• A Long Way Coming: Designing Centralized Markets with Privately Informed Buyers and Sellers” (with Leslie Marx and Simon Loertscher) Joural of Economic Literature, vol. 53(4), 857-897, 2015 [article] [wp]
• Recursive Contracts, Rat Races, and Rent Dissipation: Theory and Experimental Evidence (with Peter Bardsley, Nisvan Erkal, and Nikos Nikiforakis) European Economic Review, vol. 61, 217-231, 2013 [article]
• The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power (with Holger Herz and Ernst Fehr) American Economic Review, vol. 61, 217-231, 2013 [article] [wp]
• Regulatory Fog: The Informational Origins of Regulatory Persistence (with Patrick Warren) The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, vol. 84(3), 840-856, 2012 [article] [wp]
• Normative Conflict & Feuds: The Limits of Self-Enforcement (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Charles Noussair) Journal of Public Economics, vol. 96(3), 797-807, 2012 [article]

Published Review Papers

• Auction and Economic Design, (with Simon Loertscher) Australian Economic Review, vol. 44, 347-354, 2011 [article]

CV

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