I am a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University.  My appointment is in the Department of Economics as an Associate Professor.  My broad fields of specialty are industrial organization and experimental economics.  I am currently pursuing research on the foundations of exchange and specialization and the origin of property rights systems that undergird it.  My other research programs apply the experimental method to topics in e-commerce, electric power deregulation, and antitrust.  ICES is located on the 4^th floor of the Truland Building of the Arlington campus (the Darth Vader-looking building next to the Hazel Hall).  Our primary research laboratory is in Student Union Building II on the Fairfax campus.  Our wireless, mobile laboratory of OQO handheld machines is housed in the Darth Vader Building.  

Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason, I was a Research Scientist at the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona.  Before that, I spent a yearlong stint in DC as an Economist in the Division of Economic Policy Analysis and the Antitrust Division of the Federal Trade Commission.

At the end of this academic year I will be moving to Chapman University as a Professor of Economics and Law to co-found the Economic Science Institute with my colleagues John Dickhaut, Dave Porter, Stephen Rassenti, and Vernon Smith.

--Bart J. Wilson