Rabah Amir

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J. Edward Lundy Professor of Economics

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Positions

  • Professor of Economics

    Tippie College of Business

Areas of Interest

  • Economic dynamics
  • Game Theory
  • Industrial Organization
  • Microeconomic Theory

Professional Memberships

  • APET
  • European Economic Association
  • Game Theory Society
  • SAET

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Council member, Game Theory Society, 2015
  • SAET Fellow, 2011

Selected Publications

  • Amir, R., Belkov, S. & Evstigneev, I. (In Press). An evolutionary finance model with short selling and endogenous asset supply. Economic Theory.
  • Amir, R., Evstigneev, I., Hens, T., Potapova, V. & Schenk-Hoppe, K. (In Press). Evolution in pecunia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
  • AMIR, R., Evstigneev, I. & Gama, A. (In Press). Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific versus single network. Economic Theory. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-019-01229-0.
  • Amir, R., Cremer, H. & Lahmandi-Ayed, R. (2020). Introduction to the thematic issue on government-provided services. Journal of Public Economic Theory.
  • Amir, R., Gama, A. & Maret, I. (2019). Environmental quality and monopoly pricing. Resource and Energy Economics 58 101109.
  • Amir, R. (2019). Introduction to the special issue on supermodularity and complementarity in economic theory. Economic Theory 67 487–496.
  • Amir, R., Liu, H., Machowska, D. & Resende, J. (2019). Spillovers, subsidies and second-best socially optimal R&D. Journal of Public Economic Theory 21 (6).
  • AMIR, R. (2019). Supermodularity and complementarity in economic theory. Economic Theory.
  • Amir, R. & Evstigneev, I. (2018). A new look at the classical Bertrand duopoly. Games and Economic Behavior 109.
  • Amir, R. & Evstigneev, I. (2018). A new perspective on the classical Cournot duopoly. Journal of Dynamics and Games 4 361-367.
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Selected Presentations

  • Amir, R. (2019, December) On oligopoly with network effects. Keynote/Plenary Address presented at JM MASE, Tunis, Tunisia.
  • Amir, R. (2019, November) Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific vs single network. Seminar Venice, Italy.
  • (2019, July) One-shot models of oligopolistic R&D. Conference Presentation presented at PET 2019, Strasbourg, France.
  • Amir, R. (2019, June) Dynamic oligopoly with pollution and network effects. Workshop presented at EWGET, Berlin, Germany.
  • Amir, R. (2019, May) Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific vs single network. Seminar Santiago, Chile.
  • (2019, January) Inferior goods and public good provision.. Keynote/Plenary Address presented at ISER-NEXL joint economic summer workshop at NAU, Nanjing, China.
  • Amir, R. (2019, January) Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific vs single network. Conference Presentation presented at SAET 2019, Ischia, Italy.
  • Amir, R. (2019, January) Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific vs single network. Seminar Munich, Germany.
  • Amir, R. (2018, June) Inferior goods and public good provision. Conference Presentation presented at 8th ZJU International Conference on Industrial Economics, Hangzhou, China.
  • Amir, R. (2018, June) Inferior goods and public good provision. Keynote/Plenary Address presented at Public Economic Theory, Hue, Vietnam.

Professional Service

  • Tippie, Research Committee, Member, August 2019 - July 2019.
  • Tippie Research Committee, Member, August 2019 - June 2019.
  • Department of Economics, Graduate committee,, Director of Graduate Studies, January 2016 - July 2016.
  • Tippie, Research Committee, Member, January 2016 - June 2016.

Editorial & Review Activities

  • Dynamic Games and Applications, Associate Editor.
  • Economic Theory, Associate Editor.
  • Economic Theory Bulletin, Associate Editor.
  • Games and Economic Behavior, Associate Editor.
  • Int’l Game Theory Review, Associate Editor.
  • Journal of Dynamics and Games, Associate Editor.
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory, Co-editor.
  • Mathematical Social Sciences, Associate Editor.
  • Theory and Decision, Associate Editor.
  • Int’l Journal of Industrial Organization, Associate Editor, January 2020.