Tom Wilkening, PhD
 

Contact Information

 

Department of Economics

University of Melbourne

Victoria, 3010

Australia

 

tel. +61 3 8344 7027

fax. +61 3 8344 5104

email.

Tom.Wilkening@unimelb.edu.au

Welcome

I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. I received my PhD from MIT in 2008.

 

My main research interests are in the field of mechanism design, experimental economics, and organizations. 

 

Working Papers


 "Protecting Antiquities:  A Role for Long-Term Leases?" (with Michael Kremer) [download article]

 

 "The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation - An Empirical Investigation" (with Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr and Richard Holden) (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association) [download article]


"Handing Out Guns at a Knife Fight:  Behavioral Limitations of Subgame-Perfect Implementation" (with Ernst Fehr and Michael Powell) [download article]

"Two-Sided Allocation Problems, Matching with Transfers, and the Impossibility of Ex Post Efficiency" (with David Delacretaz, Simon Loertscher, and Leslie Marx) [download article]
 

 

Published Papers

"Information and the Persistence of Private-Order Contractual Enforcement Institutions:  An Experimental Analysis" (Forthcoming at the European Economic Review) [download article]

"A Long Way Coming:  Designing Centralized Markets with Privately Informed Buyers and Sellers" (with Simon Loertscher and Leslie Marx) Journal of Economic Literature. vol. 53(4). pages 857-97. December 2015.  [download article]

"Recursive Contracts, Firm Longevity, and Rat Races: An Experimental Analysis"

(with Peter Bardsley, Nisvan Erkal and Nikos Nikiforakis)  European Economic Review. vol. 61, pages 217-231. July 2013. [download article] [download instructions]

 

The Lure of Authority:  Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power" (with Ernst Fehr and Holger Herz) The American Economic Review. vol. 103(4). pages 1325-59. June 2013.  [download article] [translated instructions]


 "Regulatory Fog:  The Informational Origins of Regulatory Persistence" (with Patrick Warren) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. vol. 84(3), pages 840-856.[download working paper] [link to article]
 
"Normative Conflict & Feuds:  The Limits of Self-Enforceement" (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Charles N. Noussair) Journal of Public Economics. vol. 96(9-10), pages 797-807. October 2012 [link to article] 

 
Published Review Papers

"Auction and Economic Design" (with Simon Loertscher) The Australian Economic Review, vol.  44(3), pages 347-354, September 2011 [download article]

"Experimental Economics:  Rethinking the Rules,"  The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 87(276), pages 178-180, March 2011 [download article]