Dr. Bart Wilson

Chapman University School of Law
One University Drive, Orange, California  92866
Email: bjwilson@chapman.edu

Dr. Bart Wilson has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the School of Law. His broad fields of specialty are industrial organization and experimental economics. He is currently pursuing research on the foundations of exchange and specialization and the origins of property right systems in laboratory economies. His other research programs apply the experimental method to topics in gasoline markets, e-commerce, electric power deregulation, and antitrust. Dr. Wilson is part of a team, lead by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith, that will create and run the new Economic Science Institute at Chapman.

He has published papers in Antitrust Magazine, the Economic Journal, and the RAND Journal of Economics. The National Science Foundation, the Federal Trade Commission, and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics have supported his research. Bart extensively uses experimental economics in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes. For the past 8 years he has taught weeklong summer programs that introduce high school students to the study of economics using the experimental method.

Prior to joining the faculty at Chapman University, Dr. Wilson had an appointment at George Mason University in the Department of Economics, with affiliations in the Schools of Law and Management. He was also a Research Scientist at the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Before that, he spent a year in Washington D.C. as an Economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis and the Antitrust Division of the Federal Trade Commission. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arizona in 1997.