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 a Lecturer 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

 

"The Lure of Authority:  Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power" (with Ernst Fehr and Holger Herz) [download article] [translated instructions]

 

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

 

"Recursive Contracts, Firm Longevity and Rat Races: Theory and Experimental Evidence" (with Peter Bardsley, Nisvan Erkal and Nikos Nikiforakis)  [download article with instructions]

 

"Regulatory Fog:  The Informational Origins of Regulatory Persistence" (with Patrick Warren) [download article]

 

"Information and Market Structure:  Theory and Experiments" [download article with instructions]


"Normative Conflict & Feuds:  The Limits of Self-Enforceement" (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Charles N. Noussair)
[download article]


"Subgame Perfect Implementation under Approximate Common Knowledge:  Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment" (with Philippe Aghion, Ernst Fehr and Richard Holden) [download article]


Published Review Papers


"Auction and Economic Design" (with Simon Loertscher) Forthcoming in the Australian Economic Review [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]