Research

My research focuses on experimental economics, institutional design, health-care markets, electricity markets, and public policy. A fuller publication and citation record is available on my Google Scholar profile.

Selected Publications

The Shrinking Medicare Part D Benefit: Comment
Carl Johnston. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(4), 2009, pp. 239–240.

Resource Adequacy: Should Regulators Worry?
Hernan D. Bejarano, Lance Clifner, Carl Johnston, Stephen J. Rassenti, and Vernon L. Smith. Review of Network Economics, 11(4), 2012.

GPOs and the Health Care Supply Chain
Carl A. Johnston and Curtis D. Rooney. Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy, 29(1), 2013, pp. 72–88.

Health Insurance Reform in an Experimental Market
Stephen J. Rassenti and Carl A. Johnston. National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation, 2009.

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Dissertation

Dissertation

Medicare Part D: An Institutional Analysis
Ph.D. dissertation, George Mason University, 2007.

Selected Presentations

• Modeling Risk in a Financial Derivatives Clearing System, Western Economic Association International, 2013.
• Behaviorism on the Road to Serfdom: Misuse of Science in Bad Regulation, Association for Private Enterprise Education, 2011.
• Electricity Restructuring in the United States, American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011.
• Computational Agents as Health Insurers, Consumers, and Doctors, Computing in Economics and Finance, Limassol, Cyprus, 2006.

For additional publications and citation information, visit my Google Scholar profile.