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

  • Fellow, Game Theory Society, 2021
  • Council member, Game Theory Society, 2016 - 2021
  • Fellow, SAET, 2011

Selected Publications

  • Amir, R., Belkov, S. & Evstigneev, I. (2022). An evolutionary finance model with short selling and endogenous asset supply. Economic Theory 73 (2).
  • AMIR, R., Jin, J. & Troege, M. (In Press). On the Limits of Free Trade in a Cournot World: When are Restrictions on Trade beneficial ?. Canadian Journal of Economics.
  • Amir, R., Cornet, B., Khan, M. A., Levine, D. & Prescott, E. (In Press). Special Issue in honor of Nicholas C. Yannelis -- Part II. Economic Theory 73 (2).
  • AMIR, R., Machowska, D. & M. T. (2021). Advertising patterns in a dynamic oligopolistic growing market with decay. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (131) 104229.
  • Amir, R., Evstigneev, I., Hens, T., Potapova, V. & Schenk-Hoppe, K. (2021). Evolution in pecunia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 118 (26).
  • AMIR, R., Evstigneev, I. & Gama, A. (2021). Oligopoly with network effects: firm-specific versus single network. Economic Theory (71) 1203-1230.
  • Amir, R., Cremer, H. & Lahmandi-Ayed, R. (2020). Introduction to the thematic issue on government-provided services. Journal of Public Economic Theory (22) 1740-1745.
  • 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).
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Selected Presentations

  • (2021, November) Cournot oligopoly with perfect complements. Seminar Paris, France.
  • (2021, June) Cournot oligopoly with perfect complements. Conference Presentation presented at LAGV, Marseille, France.
  • (2021, January) Dynamic oligopoly with pollution and network effects. Conference Presentation presented at World Congress of Game Theory, Budapest, Hungary.
  • 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.

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, Co-editor.
  • Economic Theory Bulletin, Co-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.
  • Economic Theory, Associate Editor, June 2020 - December 2020.