Philip Brookins

Philip Brookins is an Associate Professor at the Darla Moore School of Business (University of South Carolina) and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. He holds a BPF Moore Fellowship and serves as Racquet Sports Coordinator at USC.

• PhD, MA, BA in Economics from Florida State University
• BA in Mathematics from Florida State University

Research Focus: Game-theoretic modeling of competitive behavior, experimental economics, group contests, information constraints, and strategic coordination.

Publication Trends: Analyzes contest dynamics, group size uncertainty, risk preferences, and behavioral economics principles across environmental, mathematical, and organizational contexts.

• Scientific Awards: BPF Moore Fellow

Collaborations: Regularly works with Dr. Dmitry Ryvkin (Florida State University), Dr. Jonathan DeBacker (University of Georgia), and Dr. Paul Jindapon (University of Alberta). Maintains affiliations with Harvard's Laboratory for Innovation Science and Max Planck Institute.