Research
Markets, Institutions, and Incentives
Selected publications include work on Medicare Part D, health-care reform, hospital group purchasing organizations, and electricity-market resource adequacy.
Carl A. Johnston, Ph.D.
Economist in Washington, DC working at the intersection of experimental economics, institutional design, health-care and immigration policy, and the governance of AI and complex systems.
My work combines laboratory experiments, agent-based models, and real-world policy experience—from Medicare Part D and health-care supply chains to electricity markets and U.S. investment-based immigration programs. I am interested in how we design rules and institutions so that they work tolerably well in practice, not only in theory.
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Policy
From the Laboratory to Federal Service
My work links experimental economics and institutional design to practical regulatory settings involving finance, law, immigration, and risk.
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CV and Professional Archive
This site gathers public links to publications, dissertation records, research papers, and selected professional writing.
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