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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.

Alex’s research focuses on behavioral economics, public economics, and market design. He has specialized expertise in analyzing the role of psychology in economic outcomes, in analyzing tax systems, and in analyzing the design of procedures to allocate goods and how such procedures might be gamed.

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.