Myrna Wooders

Professor of Economics

Professor Wooders, currently on leave, is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory Fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society. Editor of Journal of Public Economic Theory and President of the Association for Public Economic Theory.

Myrna Wooders’ research has concentrated on game theory and its applications, including public economics and information economics. Her recent work has focused on problems of team/coalition formation from the perspectives of cooperative and non-cooperative game theory and simulation experiments, supported by data from the field. Her research with GetPreCiSe, an NIH-funded Center, focused on issues of genetic privacy and identity. Experiments using techniques from experimental economics are in the development stage for both these lines of research. She is also working on issues of prejudice and discrimination, developing theory and testing theory in the lab. Her main line of research, beginning with her thesis, explores the cooperative foundations of price taking equilibrium in multiple economic models.

Myrna Wooders has published over 100 articles, including 3 in Econometrica and 12 in Journal of Economic Theory, besides multiple in leading field journals such as Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She has given multiple keynote and semi-plenary lectures at various international conferences. In 2024 she gave the University of Minnesota Department of Economics Minnesota Lecture.