About

Paul J. Healy is a Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University and serves as the Associate Director of the Ohio State Experimental Economics Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 2005 and joined the Ohio State Department of Economics in 2007. His research interests focus on economic theory and game theory, utilizing both theoretical and experimental methodologies. Much of his work centers on mechanism design theory and behavioral mechanism design, where he combines theory and behavioral insights to aid in the design of socially-beneficial economic institutions. Dr. Healy has published in prominent scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, Experimental Economics, and Economic Theory, as well as interdisciplinary journals including Management Science and Psychological Review. His research includes exploring the dynamic stability of economic mechanisms, the limitations of prediction markets, mechanisms for efficient resource allocation, and the study of overconfidence and belief updating in the presence of informative signals. In 2009, he was awarded a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER award, which also supports educational initiatives for high school students through summer camps.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Mathematical economics
• Econometrics
• Mathematics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Economics
• Internal medicine
• Medicine
• Statistics
• Microeconomics
• Epistemology
• Philosophy

Selected publications

• The Walker–Groves–Ledyard mechanism: Improving individual rationality without sacrificing simplicity or stability

  Journal of Mathematical Economics · 2026-02-27

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• The Walker-Groves-Ledyard Mechanism: Improving Individual Rationality Without Sacrificing Simplicity or Stability

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• A Direct Test of Ambiguity Hedging

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-08-10

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• Minimal Experiments

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01

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• A Direct Test of Ambiguity Hedging

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-08-10

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• A Direct Test of Ambiguity Hedging

  AEA Randomized Controlled Trials · 2024-08-10

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• Replication package for "Stable Randomization"

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2023-04-14

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  Replication package for "Stable Randomization" by Agranov, Healy, & Nielsen.

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• Model Selection Accuracy in Behavioral Game Theory: A Simulation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022-01-01 · 1 citations

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• The Walker-Groves-Ledyard Mechanism: Improving Individual Rationality Without Sacrificing Simplicity or Stability

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022

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  • Computer Science
  • Mathematical economics
  • Computer Science
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• Model selection accuracy in behavioral game theory: A simulation

  European Economic Review · 2022

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  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
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Recent grants

• CAREER: Behavioral Mechanism Design

  NSF · $515k · 2009–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Christopher P. Chambers

  22 shared

• Yaron Azrieli

  19 shared

• Roberto A. Weber

  5 shared

• Sotiris Georganas

  Universidad de Londres

  5 shared

• Noah Dormady

  5 shared

• Charles Noussair

  University of Arizona

  4 shared

• John O. Ledyard

  California Institute of Technology

  3 shared

• Peter Ulrich

  2 shared

Education

• PhD, Humanities & Social Sciences

  California Institute of Technology

  2005

• B.S., School of Management

  Purdue University

  2000

Awards & honors

• NSF CAREER Award (2009)