Bart Wilson
Associate Professor of Economics and Law
Ph.D., University of Arizona
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Subjects Taught: Law and Economics
Contact Information
Email: Send an email
Phone: 703-993-4845
Office: Room T400L, Arlington Campus
Address:
3301 Fairfax Dr.
Arlington, VA 22201
Biographical Sketch
BART J. WILSON joins the law school as part of the newly formed Interdisciplinary Center for Economics Science (ICES) at George Mason University. He has an appointment in the Department of Economics as an associate professor, with affiliations in the Schools of Management and Law. Professor Wilson's broad fields of specialty are industrial organization, experimental economics, and econometrics. More specifically, he is pursuing research on e-commerce and deregulated electricity markets. His other research program applies the experimental method to topics in antitrust.
Professor Wilson has published papers in the Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, and the RAND Journal of Economics. The National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics have supported his research. Professor Wilson extensively uses experimental economics in teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in e-commerce, microeconomics, and industrial organization.
Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason, Professor Wilson was a research scientist at the Economics Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Before that, he spent a yearlong stint in Washington, D.C., as an economist in the Division of Economics 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.