ALEX REES-JONES

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute

alre@wharton.upenn.edu

Alex Rees-Jones is an Associate Professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department at Wharton. He also serves on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review, as an Associate Editor at Management Science, as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and as a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 2013 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2014.

In his research, Alex explores the ways in which psychological biases and imperfect cognition affect economic policy analysis. A major topic area of interest is public finance, examining how citizen’s imperfect responses to tax incentives affect the assessment of tax policy. Another line of research explores similar forces in market design, examining how market participants’ imperfect understanding of assignment procedures affects the outcomes that these markets determine. Alex's work in these domains has appeared in top academic journals in economics, management, and the general sciences.

At Wharton, Alex teaches an introductory course on Public Finance and Policy to the undergraduates and MBAs. He also teaches PhD-level courses on public economics and on policy applications of behavioral economics.

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