Vernon L. Smith: advisors and students

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Vernon L. Smith

American economistborn 1927

Supervised 8 doctoral students at University of Arizona; Wikidata names Wassily Leontief as doctoral advisor and lists 17 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students8

cited by a thesis record
Cary Alan Deck “An examination of fiat money as a mechanism for solving coordination problems in decentralized markets”
2001 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mary L. Rigdon “Cooperation and intentions in experimental bargaining games”
2001 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Roumen Dimitrov Vragov “Agent designs for electronic markets”
2001 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gregory Attiyeh “A theoretical and experimental examination of volatility persistence in financial markets”
1997 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Samuel Howard Dinkin “A smart market for scheduling: An experimental study”
1996 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Roland Michelitsch “Do terms of trade have to worsen for developing countries? How low-income elasticity of demand affects the terms of trade in a laboratory market, in combination with the effect of market power.”
1993 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mark Virgil Van Boening “Call versus continuous auctions: An experimental study of market organization.”
1991 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Charissa Pepin Wellford “Takeovers and horizontal mergers: Policy and performance.”
1990 · University of Arizona · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Wassily Leontief

Students on Wikidata17

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Abel M. Winn
stated by Wikidata
Angelina Nikitenko Christie
stated by Wikidata
Arlington W. Williams
stated by Wikidata
Arlington Walton Williams
stated by Wikidata
Charissa Pepin Wellford
stated by Wikidata
Diego Aycinena
stated by Wikidata
Don Lawton Coursey
stated by Wikidata
Erik Kimbrough
stated by Wikidata
Erik Tallroth
stated by Wikidata
Jamie Lynette Brown Kruse
stated by Wikidata
Mark Virgil Van Boening
stated by Wikidata
Mary Lisa Rigdon
stated by Wikidata
Michael A. Giberson
stated by Wikidata
Paul Rex Beach
stated by Wikidata
Ryan Oprea
stated by Wikidata
Samuel Howard Dinkin
stated by Wikidata
Yu Mei

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWassily Leontief
2 steps up
stated by WikidataLadislaus Bortkiewiczstated by WikidataWerner Sombart
3 steps up
stated by WikidataAdolph Wagnerstated by WikidataGustav von Schmollerstated by WikidataWilhelm Lexis
4 steps up
stated by WikidataAugust Beerstated by WikidataCarl Wolfgang Christoph Schüzstated by WikidataJohann Karl Rodbertus

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 29 people: 8 cited by thesis records, 21 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career15

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1951
University of Kansas
studied
until 1955
Harvard University
studied
undated
California Institute of Technology
studied
undated
University of Massachusetts Amherst
studied
undated
Friends University
studied
undated
Kansas State University
studied
undated
Wichita North High School
studied
undated
Brown University
worked
undated
Purdue University
worked
undated
Stanford University
worked
undated
George Mason University
worked
undated
University of Massachusetts Amherst
worked
undated
California Institute of Technology
worked
undated
University of Arizona
worked
undated
Chapman University
worked

Coauthors in OpenAlex121

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

indexed by OpenAlex
Stephen Rassenti
45 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
David Porter
25 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Sabiou M. Inoua
20 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Steven D. Gjerstad
19 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Kevin McCabe
14 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
James M. Walker
12 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Mark Van Boening
11 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
James C. Cox
10 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Arlington W. Williams
10 shared works
indexed by OpenAlex
Thomas C. Schelling
7 shared works

OpenAlex lists 111 more people who share a work with them.

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
Paula-Ann Cech “Information, auditing, and incentives in regulation.”
committee member · 1989 · University of Arizona · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robert Earl Dorsey “The effects of endogenously-generated information on specific economic institutions.”
committee member · 1989 · University of Arizona · doctoral

At a glance

known as: economist, university teacher
fields: economics
degrees: doctorate
awards: Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002, Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1987, honorary doctorate from University of Lyon (ComUE), 2018, Hayek Medal, 2008
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, from 1987
Wikipedia: in 51 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere9

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaVernon L. Smith
stated by WikidataWikidataQ295717
stated by WikidataORCID0000-0002-0890-9740
stated by WikidataVIAF110896359
stated by WikidataGND121963284
stated by WikidataIdRef031599567
stated by WikidataISNI0000000116987602

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle ScholarLGCdDW0AAAAJ

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project145535

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q295717,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Vernon L. Smith: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q295717},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Vernon L. Smith: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q295717