Anderson Graduate School of Management

Amnon Rapoport

Distinguished Professor of Management

Amnon Rapoport has previously served on the faculties of the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Michigan, Haifa University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as head of the Institute of Information and Decision Processing and as dean of the graduate school at Haifa University. Professor Rapoport's research focuses on individual decision making and interactive decision making, as well as bargaining and negotiation, conflict and cooperation, social dilemmas, and behavioral game theory.

Professor Rapoport received his B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. and Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He is the author of eight books and more than one hundred published papers and book chapters. His published research has appeared in such journals as Science, Management Science, Marketing Science, American Economic Review, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Psychological Science, Psychological Review, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, among others. He serves or has served as associate editor or as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Experimental Economics,Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Games and Economic Behavior. He is co-editor of the annual series, Experimental Business Research. Professor Rapoport has received numerous grants from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the Hong Kong Grants Research Grants Council, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and the United States Air Force.

Recent Scholarship

Chapters in Books

• Rapoport, A. & Murphy, R. O. (in press). Evolution and breakdown of trust in continuous time. In G. E. Bolton and R. Croson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Economic Conflict Resolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

• Kugler, T., Rapoport, A., & Pazy, A. (2010). Public good provision in inter-team conflict: Effects of asymmetry and profit-sharing rule. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 421-438.
• Rapoport, A., Stein, W. E., Mak, V., Zwick, R., & Seale, D. A. (2010). Endogenous arrivals in batch queues with constant or variable capacity. Transportation Research B, 44, 1166-1185. 2011
• Chark, R., Rapoport, A., & Zwick, R. (2011). Experimental comparison of two multi-stage contest designs with asymmetric players. Public Choice, 147, 305.
• Gisches, E. & Rapoport, A. (in press). Degrading network capacity may improve performance: Information effects in the Braess Paradox. Theory and Decision
• Mak, V., Rapoport, A., & Gisches, E. J. (in press). Competitive dynamic pricing with alternating offers: Theory and experiment. Games and Economic Behavior