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Prior to joining Laurier, I was a postdoctoral fellow at University of New South Wales in the School of Economics with the AGORA Centre for Market Design. I graduated with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2022.
My research interests lie at the intersection of experimental economics, computational economics, and micro theory. More narrowly, I study the design of markets and competitive equilibrium using mediums such as laboratory experiments, agent-based modelling, and simulations.
My current research interests and ongoing projects focus on trader behavior, dynamics and equilibrium notions in general equilibrium. Variations in the market format (mainly continuous double auction), information, trader preferences and satisfaction of common GE assumptions define the settings and research questions of the different projects. All of them make use of at least one of (if not more): laboratory experiments, theory, agent-based modelling and simulations.
- Friedman, Daniel, Brett Williams, and Vivian Juehui Zheng. “Market Visualizations.” Experimental Economics (2026): 1–22.
- Williams, Brett. "Zero intelligence in an Edgeworth box." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance (2025)
- Williams, Brett. "Violations of first-order stochastic dominance." Journal of the Economic Science Association 9.2 (2023): 239-251.
- Friedman, Daniel, Sameh Habib, Duncan James, and Brett Williams. "Varieties of risk preference elicitation." Games and Economic Behavior 133 (2022): 58-76.
- EC305 Behavioural Economics
- EC345 Mathematical Economics