Dr Luke Lindsay

Dr Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and co-director of the Finance and Economics Experimental Laboratory at Exeter (FEELE).  He joined the Business School in September 2013 after having spent three years as a postdoc at the University of Zurich. He earned his first degree from the University of Oxford and his PhD from the University of Nottingham.

His research focuses on how people behave in markets and how markets can be designed to work better.  He uses a combination of theory and experimental testing. Recent projects include modelling how traders respond to experience, designing and testing complex combinatorial market mechanisms, and analysing traders’ heart rates, skin conductance and facial expressions.  He has published papers in the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Games and Economic Behavior, and the Journal of Economic Theory.

He is particularly interested in the practical applications of market design.  He has advised a number of UK organisations on auction and market design.  Recently, the combinatorial market mechanism introduced by Lindsay (2018) has been used in several nature markets that trade credits for biodiversity and water quality.