John B. Van Huyck
Private Enterprise Research Center
Rex B. Grey Professor
Experimental Economics and
Behavioral Game Theory
(Ph.D., Brown University, 1986)
Office Address:
Department of Economics
Allen 3068
Contact Information:
Telephone: (979) 845-7392
Email:
john.vanhuyck@tamu.edu
Personal Web Page:
http://economicscience.us/jvh/
Bio
Professor John Van Huyck is the Rex B. Grey Professor in Economics and the Director of the Economic Research Laboratory. He grew up in Northern Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979. Dr. Van Huyck received his Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in 1986. He has visited 47 of the 50 United States and 28 countries, but chose to live in the Great State of Texas. He has served on the faculty at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor from 1985-1991, and as an associate professor from 1991-1996. Professor Van Huyck has published research papers in the most prestigious economics journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Econometrica.
Selected Publications
"Estimating Bounded Rationality and Pricing Performance Uncertainty," with C. McKinney, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 62(4), April 2007, 625-639.
"Credible Assignments and
Coordination Failure in Laboratory Public Goods Games", with B. Seely and R.
Battalio, Journal of Public Economics, 89(8), August 2005, 1437-1457.
"Evidence on the Equivalence of the Strategic and Extensive Form
Representation of Games", with D. Cooper, Journal of Economic Theory,
110(2), June 2003, 290-308.
"Optimization Incentives and Coordination Failure in Laboratory Stag Hunt Games." Econometrica, 69(3), May 2001.
"On the Origins of Convention: Evidence from Coordination Games" Economic Journal 107(442), May 1997, 576-97.
"Selection Dynamics, Asymptotic Stability, and Adaptive Behavior," Journal of Political Economy, October 1994.
"History's Role in Coordinating Decentralized Allocation Decisions," Journal of Political Economy, 1992.
"Strategic Uncertainty, Equilibrium Selection, and Coordination Failure in Average Opinion Games," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1991.
"Tacit Coordination Games, Strategic Uncertainty, and Coordination Failure," American Economic Review, 1990.