Management & Organizations Faculty : Amnon Rapoport

	Karl Eller Professor
	Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Phone:	520.621.9325
	Fax:	520.621.4171
	Email:	amnon@u.arizona.edu
	Office:	McClelland Hall, Room 405
	Website:	www.u.arizona.edu/~amnon

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

• MGMT 432 Bargaining and Negotiation
• MGMT 458/558 Conflict and cooperation in the dyad

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Social dilemmas
• Behavioral operations management
• Behavioral game theory

Recent Publications and Working Papers

Publications

Stein, W. E., Rapoport, A., Seale, D. A., Zhang, H., & Zwick, R. (2007). Batch queues with choice of arrivals: Equilibrium analysis and experimental study. Games and Economic Behavior, 59, 345-363.

Ohtsubo, Y. & Rapoport, A. (2006). Depth of reasoning in strategic form games.   Journal of Socio-Economics, 35, 31-47.

Murphy, R. O., Rapoport, A., & Parco, J. E. (2006). Breakdown of cooperation in iterative real-time trust dilemmas.   Experimental Economics, 9, 147-166.

Bearden, J. N., Rapoport, A., & Murphy, R. O. (2006). Sequential selection and assignment with relative ranks: An experimental study.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 229-250.

Bearden, J. N., Rapoport, A., & Murphy, R. O. (2006).  Sequential observation and selection with rank-dependent payoffs: An experimental test of alternative decision rules.  Management Science, 52, 1437-1449.

Rapoport, A., Mak, V., & Zwick, R. (2006). Navigating congested networks with variable demand: Experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Psychology (Special Issue: Research Inspired by Thomas C. Schelling), 27, 648-666.

Gunnthorsdottir, A. & Rapoport, A. (2006).  Egalitarian vs. proportional profit-sharing rules in multi-level collective action problems.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes,  101, 184-199.

Rapoport, A. & Zwick, R. (Eds.) (2005). Experimental Business Research Volume II.  Dordrecht, Holland: Springer, pp. 267.

Zwick, R. & Rapoport, A. (Eds.) (2005). Experimental Business Research Volume III. Dordrecht, Holland: Springer, pp. 318.

Seale, D. A., Parco, J. E., Stein, W. E., & Rapoport, A. (2005). Joining a queue or staying out: Effects of information structure and service time on large group coordination.  Experimental Economics, 8, 117-144.

Rapoport, A. and Bearden, J. N. (2005). Strategic behavior in monkeys.  Trends in Cognitive Psychology, 9, 213-215.

Parco, J. E., Rapoport, A., & Amaldoss, W. (2005). Two-stage contests with budget constraints: An experimental study.  Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 49, 320-338.

Stein, W. E. & Rapoport, A. (2005). Symmetric multistage contests with budget constraints.  Public Choice, 124, 309-328.

Amaldoss, W. & Rapoport, A. (2005). Collaborative product and market development: A theoretical and experimental investigation.  Marketing Science, 24, 396-414.

Bearden, J N., Murphy, R. O., & Rapoport, A. (2005). A multi-attribute extension of the secretary problem: Theory and Experiments. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 49, 410-425.

Garratt, R., Parco, J. E., & Qin, C. -Z., and Rapoport, A. (2005). Potential maximization and coalition government formation. International Game Theory Review, 7, 1-23.

Goren, H., Rapoport, A., & Kurzban, R. (2004). Revocable commitments to public goods provision under the real-time protocol of play.   Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 17-37.

Stein, W. E. and Rapoport, A. (2004). Asymmetric two-stage group rent seeking: Comparison of two contest structures.   Public Choice, 118, 151-167.

Murphy, R. O., Rapoport, A., & Parco J. E. (2004).  Population learning of cooperative behavior in a three-person centipede game.   Rationality and Society, 16, 91-120.

Rapoport, A. & Amaldoss, W. (2004). Mixed-strategy play in single-stage first-price all-pay auctions with symmetric players. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 54, 585-607.

Rapoport, A., Stein, W. E., Parco, J. E., & Seale, D. A. (2004). Strategic play in single-server queues with endogenously determined arrival times.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 55, 67-91.

Rapoport, A. & Amaldoss, W. (2004). Erratum to “Mixed-strategy play in single-stage first-price all-pay auctions with symmetric players.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 55, 293.

Parco, J. E., & Rapoport, A. (2004). Enhancing honesty in bargaining under incomplete information: An experimental study of the bonus procedure.  Group Decision and Negotiation, 13, 539-562.

Goren, H., Kurzban, R., & Rapoport, A. (2003). Social loafing vs. social enhancement: Public goods provisioning in real-time with irrevocable commitments. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 90, 277-290.

Rapoport, A., Stein, W. E., Parco, J. E., & Nicholas, T. E. (2003). Equilibrium play and adaptive learning in a three-person centipede game.  Games and Economic Behavior, 43, 239-265.

Stein, W. E., Seale, D. A., & Rapoport, A. (2003). Analysis of heuristic solutions to the best choice problem.  European Journal of Operational Research, 151, 140-152.

Zwick, R., Rapoport, A., Lo, A. K. C., & Muthukrishnan, A. V. (2003). Consumer search: not enough or too much?  Marketing Science, 22, 503-519.

Rapoport, A. & Amaldoss, W. (in press).  In search of experimental support for an asymmetric equilibria solution in symmetric investment games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Bearden, J.N., Murphy, R.O., & Rapoport, A. (in press). Decision biases in revenue management: Some behavioral evidence. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Working Papers

Murphy, R. O., Rapoport, A., & Parco, J. E. (submitted). Strategy elicitation in symmetric real-time trust dilemmas.  Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Amaldoss, W. & Rapoport, A. (submitted). Excessive expenditure in two-stage contests: Theory and experimental evidence. Experimental Economics
 
Rapoport, A., Kugler, T., Dugar, S., & Gisches, E. (submitted). Choice of routes in congested traffic networks: Experimental tests of the Braess paradox. Games and Economic Behavior.

Kugler, T., Rapoport, A., & Pazy, A. (submitted). Public good provision in inter-group conflict: Effects of asymmetry and profit-sharing rule. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Aoki, K, Ohtsubo, Y., Rapoport, A., & Saijo, T. (submitted). Effects of prior investment and personal responsibility in a simple network game.  Asian Journal of Social Psychology.

Daniel, T. E., Gisches, E. J., and Rapoport A. (submitted). Departure time in Y-shaped traffic networks with multiple bottlenecks. American Economic Review.

Becker, W. J., Bearden, J. N., & Rapoport, A. (submitted). Perishable asset dynamic pricing in the laboratory. Management Science.

Professional Associations

• Informs
• Society for Mathematical Psychology
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making

Grants

“Predicting and Prescribing Human Decision Making under Uncertain and Complex Scenarios”
Co-P.I. Amnon Rapoport (joint grant to the Department of Management and Organizations and the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona).
Granting Agency: US Air Force (AFOSR/MURI)
Total Award: $3,987,238.00 for the period June 1, 2003 to May 31, 2008.
(Award for the MAP Dept.: Approximately 25 percent of the total award)

“Experimental Investigation of Multi-Stage Contests”
Co-P.I. Amnon Rapoport (with Rami Zwick at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Granting Agency: RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant HKUST6307/04H
Total Award: HK$406,434 for the period September 1, 2004 to March 31, 2007

“Cooperation under Uncertainty”
Co-P.I. Amnon Rapoport (with Gary Bornstein at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Granting Agency: United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF No. 2003299)
Total Award: $90,000 for the period August 1st, 2004 to July  31th, 2007.

“Population Dynamics in Real Time Trust Dilemmas”
Co-P.I. Amnon Rapoport (with Ryan O. Murphy at Columbia University)
Granting Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Total Award: $146,865 for the period September 15, 2006 to September 14, 2009.