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Rabah Amir

Professor and Director, PhD Program in Economics
 Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow
Economics
W282  John Pappajohn Bus Bldg
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994		 Ph: 319-335-1230
Fax: 319-335-1956
E-mail: rabah-amir@uiowa.edu

Academic History

  • PhD in Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1985
  • BS in Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, 1980

Expertise

  • Game Theory
  • Industrial Economics
  • Microeconomic Theory

    Selected Publications

    • Evolutionary Finance and Dynamic Games, Rabah Amir, I. Evstigneev, T. Hens, L. Xu, Mathematics and Financial Economics - Publication Details Forthcoming
    • Equilibrium Play in Matches: Binary Markov Games, Mark Walker, Rabah Amir, Games and Economic Behavior, vol 71, 2011, 487-502
    • Incentives for Cost Misrepresentation in Supply Chains, Rabah Amir, Thierry Leiber, Isabelle Maret, International Journal of Economic Theory, vol 7, 2011, 157-178
    • Network Effects, Market Structure and Industry Performance, Rabah Amir, N. Lazzati, Journal of Economic Theory, vol 146, 2011, 2389-2419
    • On the Effects of Banks' Equity Ownership on Credit Markets, Rabah Amir, Michael Troege, Annals of Finance, vol 7, 2011, 31-52
    • R&D as a Prisoner's Dilemma and R&D-Avoiding Cartels, Rabah Amir, Filomena Garcia, Christine Halmenschlager, Joana Vaz Pais
    • R&D-Induced Industry Polarization and Shake-outs, Rabah Amir, Christine Halmenschlager, Jim Jin, International Journal for Industrial Organization, vol 29, 2011, 386-398
    • Robust Results on the Sharing of Firm-Specific Information: Incentives and Welfare Effects, Rabah Amir, Jim Y. Jin, Michael Troege, Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol 46, 2010, 855-866
    • Symmetry-Breaking in Two-Player Games via Strategic Substitutes and Diagonal Nonconcavity: A Sythesis, Rabah Amir, Filomena Garcia, Malgorzata Knauff, Journal of Economic Theory, vol 145, 2010, 1968-1986
    • Comparative Statistcs in a Simple Class of Strategic Market Games, Rabah Amir, Francis Bloch, Games and Economic Behavior, vol 65, 2009, 7-24
    • Merger Performance Under Uncertain Efficiency Gains, Rabah Amir, Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Licun Xue, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol 27, 2009, 264-273
    • On Additive Spillovers and Returns to Scale in R&D, Rabah Amir, Jim Y. Jin, Michael Troege, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol 26, 2008, 695-703
    • On the Impact of Innovation on the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve, Rabah Amir, Marc Germain , Vincent van Steenberghe, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol 10, 2008, 985-1010
    • Ranking Economics Departments Worldwide on the Basis of PhD Placement, Rabah Amir, Malgorzata Knauff, The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol 90, 2008, 185-190
    • Symmetric vs Asymmetric Equilibria in Symmetric Supermodular Games, Rabah Amir, M. Jakubczek, M. Knauff, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol 90, 2008, 185-190

        Other Work

        • Introducction to the Special Issue of Games and Economic Behavior in Honor of Martin Shubik, Rabah Amir, Games and Economic Behavior, vol 65, 2009, 1-6

          Prior Positions

          • Visiting Professor, Caltech, 2011
          • Professor of Economics, Eller School of Management, University of Arizona, 2004 - 2012
          • Professor, CORE, UCL, Belgium, 2001 - 2004
          • Professor, School of Economic Studies, University of Manchester, UK, 2000 - 2001
          • Professor of Economics, Odense University, Denmark, and University of Copenhagen, 1997 - 2000
          • Senior Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), 1995 - 1997
          • Visiting Scholar, CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1990 - 1994
          • Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1990 - 1994
          • Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Dortmund, Germany, 1990 - 1994
          • Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Economics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1985 - 1990
          • Research Fellow, Cowles Foundation, Yale University, 1985 - 1985