Amnon Rapoport

Publication List Details

Period

1963 - 9999

Number

100

Co-Authors

Are Inventory Decisions Optimal?, (9999)

Rapoport,Amnon, Calder,Bobby J.

This study is concerned with the experimental investigation of decision behavior in a single-item, multistage, non-backlog inventory problem, with linear ordering, storing, and overproduction costs,...

Decisions of Timing in Pure Conflict: I. The Noisy Duel with Equal Accuracies, (9999)

Kahan,James P., Rapoport,Amnon

Games of timing constitute a subclass of two-person, zerosum, infinite games, where the problem facing the player is not what action to take, but rather when he should take action. The theoretical...

Marketing Department Working paper MKT152). Behavioral Strategies in Repeated Pure Coordination Games Please address all correspondence to: (2007)

Clear Water Bay, Rami Zwick, Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport, Alison King, Chung Lo

1 We study experimentally a class of pure coordination games as a special case of the Consumer Choice of Prizes game developed by Rapoport et al. (2000). We find a high level of group coordination...

Acknowledgement (2007)

Amnon Rapoport, Amnon Rapoport, Rami Zwick, Alison King, Chung Lo

hospitality. We study a class of interactive decision making situations in which each agent must choose to participate in one of several lotteries with commonly known prizes. In contrast to the...

Behavioral Strategies In Repeated (2007)

Pure Coordination Games, Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport, Alison King, Chung Lo

this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the CCP game and constructs its Nash equilibria. Section 3 first presents the experimental design for a special case of the CCP game in which...

Unique bid auctions: Equilibrium solutions and experimental evidence (2007)

Rapoport, Amnon, Otsubo, Hironori, Kim, Bora, Stein, William E.

Two types of auction were introduced on the Internet a few years ago and have rapidly been gaining widespread popularity. In both auctions, players compete for an exogenously determined prize by...

A Comparison of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Geometric Mean Procedure for Ratio Scaling. (2005)

Budescu, David V., Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon

This research note evaluates and compares the performance of two methods of ratio scaling (the analytic hierarchy process proposed by Saaty (1977, 1980), and the geometric mean procedure advocated by...

Direct and Indirect Scaling of Membership Functions of Probability Phrases. (2005)

Rapoport, Amnon, Wallsten, Thomas S., Cox, James A.

A crucial issue in the empirical measurement of membership functions is whether the degree of fuzziness is invariant under different scaling procedures. In this paper a direct and an indirect...

A Comparison of the Eigenvalue Method and the Geometric Mean Procedure for Ratio Scaling. (2005)

Budescu, David V., Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon

This article evaluates and compares the performance of two methods of ratio scaling: the eigenvalue method , and the geometric mean procedure. When the methods are used on random data. The methods...

Choice of prizes allocated by multiple lotteries with endogenously determined probabilities (2002)

Rapoport, Amnon, Lo, Alison King Chung, Zwick, Rami

We study a class of interactive decision making situations in which each agent must choose to participate in one of several lotteries with commonly known prizes. In contrast to the widely studied...

Behavioral strategies in repeated pure coordination games (2000)

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon, Lo, Alison King Chung

We study experimentally a class of pure coordination games as a special case of the Consumer Choice of Prizes game developed by Rapoport et al. (2000). We find a high level of group coordination...

Invariance failure under subgame perfectness in sequential bargaining (2000)

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon, Weg, Eythan

A basic property of any normative theory of decision making - individual or group - is its invariance under the theory's own equivalence specification. Growing evidence from experimental studies in...

Bonus and penalty in common pool resource dilemmas under uncertainty (1999)

Rapoport, Amnon, Au, Wing Tung

In a sequence of studies, Budescu, Rapoport, and Suleiman investigated a class of common pool resource (CPR) dilemmas characterized by the presence of both strategic uncertainty and environmental...

Elicitation of strategy profiles in large group coordination games (1999)

Seale, Darryl A., Rapoport, Amnon

The strategy method is an experimental procedure for eliciting a complete strategy of play for all information sets, not only the ones that happen to be reached during the course of a play of a game....

Tacit coordination in a decentralized market entry game with fixed capacity (1999)

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon

Tacit coordination is studied experimentally in a class of iterated market entry games with a relatively small number of potential entrants (n = 6), symmetric players, and fixed entry fees. These...

Provision of binary public goods in single-period social dilemmas : theories and experiments (1999)

Rapoport, Amnon

The present review summarizes the major results of a systematic program of theoretical and experimental research on the voluntary contributions mechanism in a public goods environment characterized...

Game theory : contributions to the study of human cognition (1999)

Rapoport, Amnon

Recent developments in game theory incorporate assumptions about the players' beliefs, bounded rationality, knowledge, and information processing that are of special interest to psychologists...

Choice of Prizes Allocated by Multiple Lotteries with Endogenously Determined Probabilities (1999)

Amnon Rapoport, Amnon Rapoport, Rami Zwick, Alison King, Chung Lo

We consider a class of interactive decision making situations in which each DM must choose to participate in one of several lotteries with different prizes that are commonly known. These lotteries...

Tacit Coordination in a Decentralized Market Entry Game with Fixed Capacity (1999)

Rami Zwick, Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport

Tacit coordination is studied experimentally in a class of iterated market entry games with a relatively small number of potential entrants (n = 6), symmetric players, and fixed entry fees. These...

Collaborating to compete a game-theoretical model and empirical investigation of the effect of profit-sharing arrangement and type of alliance (1998)

Amaldoss, Wilfred, Meyer, Robert J., Raju, Jagmohan S., Rapoport, Amnon

In collaborating to compete, firms forge different types of strategic alliances: same function alliances (e.g., R&D alliance), cross-function alliances (e.g., marketing and production alliance), and...

The information advantage in two-person bargaining with incomplete information (1998)

Seale, Darryl A., Daniel, Terry E., Rapoport, Amnon

The sealed-bid k-double auction is a mechanism used to structure bilateral bargaining under two-sided incomplete information. This mechanism has been tested in several experiments in which subjects...

An experimental study of coordination and learning in iterated two-market entry games (1998)

Rapoport, Amnon, Seale, Darryl A., Winter, Eyal

Tacit coordination in large groups is studied experimentally in an iterated market entry game with complete information and multiple market capacities that are varied randomly from period to period....

Weighted probabilities in tacit coordination under uncertainty : theory and evidence from market entry games (1998)

Rapoport, Amnon, Seale, Darryl A., Ordonez, Lisa

Tacit coordination in large groups is studied theoretically and experimentally in a class of noncooperative n-person games in which each of n symmetric players is required to choose simultaneously...

Reinforcement-based adaptive learning in asymmetric two-person bargaining with incomplete information (1998)

Rapoport, Amnon, Daniel, Terry E.

The sealed-bid k-double auction is a mechanism used to structure bilateral bargaining under two-sided incomplete information. This mechanism is tested in two experiments in which subjects are asked...

Strategic play and adaptive learning in the sealed-bid bargaining mechanism (1998)

Daniel, Terry E., Seale, Darryl A., Rapoport, Amnon

We report the results of two experiments on bilateral bargaining under the sealed-bid double auction mechanism in environments where theory calls for decidedly strategic play. The observed individual...

Coordination, "magic", and reinforcement learning in a market entry game (1997)

Erev, Ido, Rapoport, Amnon

Previous experimental studies have documented quick convergence to equilibrium play in market entry games with a large number of agents. The present study examines the effect of the available...

Coordination and learning behavior in large groups with asymmetric players (1997)

Rapoport, Amnon, Seale, Darryl A., Winter, Eyal

We consider a class of large group, non-cooperative, iterated market entry games with complete information, binary choices, and asymmetric players in which the incentive of each player to enter the...

Competition for the development of a new product : theoretical and experimental investigation (1997)

Rapoport, Amnon, Amaldoss, Wilfred

The competition between two firms involved in developing a new product is modeled as a two-person nonzerosum game in strategic form in which each firm invests part of its R&D budget in the...

Social dilemmas embedded in between-group competitions : effects of contest and distribution rules (1997)

Rapoport, Amnon, Amaldoss, Wilfred

We consider two classes of collective action problems that occur simultaneously at several levels of hierarchical organizations. Our objective is to model how individual incentives to cooperate in...

Optional stopping behavior with relative ranks : the secretary problem with unknown population size (1997)

Seale, Darryl A., Rapoport, Amnon

We examine multi-period observation and selection problems with an unknown number of applicants in which applicants are interviewed one at a time on each period, recall of applicants that were...

A breakdown of invariance : the case of two vs. three-person sequential bargaining (1996)

Zwick, Rami, Rapoport, Amnon, Weg, Eythan

A basis property of any (normative) theory of decision making - individual or group - is its invariance under equivalence. Growing evidence from experimental studies in several areas of game playing...

A study of human decisions in a computer-controlled task /--by Amnon Rapoport. (1963)

Rapoport, Amnon.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1963.

Batch Queues with Choice of Arrivals: Equilibrium Analysis and Experimental Study

William E. Stein, Amnon Rapoport, Darryl A. Seale, Hongtao Zhang, Rami Zwick

We study both theoretically and experimentally the decisions players make in two queueing games with batch service. In both games, players are asked to independently decide when to join a...

Symmetric two-stage contests with budget constraints

William Stein, Amnon Rapoport

The impact of a budget constraint on individual expenditures is examined in two models of two-stage contests with homogenous and risk-neutral players competing to win a single, indivisible, commonly...

The breakdown of cooperation in iterative real-time trust dilemmas

Ryan Murphy, Amnon Rapoport, James Parco

We study a class of trust-based cooperation dilemmas that evolve in continuous time. Characteristic of these dilemmas is that as long as all n players continue to cooperate, their payoffs increase...

Reinforcement-Based Adaptive Learning in Asymmetric Two-Person Bargaining with Incomplete Information

Amnon Rapoport, Terry Daniel, Darryl Seale

The sealed bid k-double auction is a mechanism used to structure bilateral bargaining under two-sided incomplete information. This mechanism is tested in two experiments in which subjects are asked...

Elicitation of Strategy Profiles in Large Group Coordination Games

Darryl Seale, Amnon Rapoport

The strategy method is an experimental procedure for eliciting a complete strategy of play for all information sets, not only the ones that happen to be reached during the course of a play of a game....

Tacit Coordination in a Decentralized Market Entry Game with Fixed Capacity

Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport

We focus on a class of market entry games in which a newly emergent market opportunity may be fruitfully exploited by no more than a commonly known, exogenously determined number of firms. Our...

Unique bid auctions: Equilibrium solutions and experimental evidence

Rapoport, Amnon, Otsubo, Hironori, Kim, Bora, Stein, William E.

Two types of auction were introduced on the Internet a few years ago and have rapidly been gaining widespread popularity. In both auctions, players compete for an exogenously determined prize by...

Experimental Tests of the Separation Theorem and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.

Kroll, Yoram, Levy, Haim, Rapoport, Amnon

A computer-controlled portfolio selection task with three risky assets and either with or without a riskless asset was devised to test experimentally assumptions underlying the separation theorem and...

Tacit Coordination in Choice between Certain Outcomes in Endogenously Determined Lotteries.

Rapoport, Amnon, Seale, Darryl A, Ordonez, Lisa

Tacit coordination is studied in a class of games in which each of n = 20 players is required to choose between two courses of actions. The first action offers each player a fixed outcome whereas the...

Tacit Coordination in a Decentralized Market Entry Game with Fixed Capacity

Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport

Tacit coordination is studied experimentally in a class of iterated market entry games with a relatively small number of potential entrants (n = 6), symmetric players, and fixed entry fees. These...

Invariance failure under subgame perfectness in sequential bargaining

Rami Zwick, Eythan Weg, Amnon Rapoport

A basic property of any normative theory of decision making --- individual or group --- is its invariance under the theory's own equivalence specification. Growing evidence from experimental studies...

CONSUMER SEARCH: NOT ENOUGH OR TOO MUCH?

Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport, A. V. Muthukrishnan

We study search behavior in a generalized "secretary problem" environment in which consumers search sequentially for the best alternative from a known and finite set of multi-attribute alternatives....

Choice of Prizes Allocated by Multiple Lotteries with Endogenously Determined Probabilities

Amnon Rapoport, Rami Zwick

We study a class of interactive decision making situations in which each agent must choose to participate in one of several lotteries with commonly known prizes. In contrast to the widely studied...

Behavioral Strategies in Repeated Pure Coordination Games

Rami Zwick, Amnon Rapoport

We study experimentally a class of pure coordination games as a special case of the Consumer Choice of Prizes game developed by Rapoport et al. (2000). We find a high level of group coordination...

The effect of sharing rules on group competition

Anna Gunnthorsdottir, Amnon Rapoport

We consider embedding independent within-group conflicts for the provision of public goods in a between-group competition for an exogenously determined prize as a structural mechanism for reducing...

Joining a Queue or Staying Out: Effects of Information Structure and Service Time on Arrival and Staying Out Decisions

Darryl Seale, James Parco, William Stein, Amnon Rapoport

We study a class of single-server queueing systems with a finite population size, FIFO queue discipline, and no balking or reneging. In contrast to the predominant assumptions of queueing theory of...

Potential Maximization and Coalition Government Formation

Rod Garratt, Cheng-Zhong Qin, James E. Parco, Amnon Rapoport

A model of coalition government formation is presented in which inefficient, non-minimal winning coalitions may form in Nash equilibrium. Predictions for five games are presented and tested...

Asymmetric Two-Stage Group Rent-Seeking: Comparison of Two Contest Structures

William E. Stein, Amnon Rapoport

Two variations of a two-stage rent-seeking contest are considered. In the first stage of the Between-Group model, groups compete through the expenditure of resources by their members. Based on group...

symposium articles : An experimental study of coordination and learning in iterated two-market entry games

Eyal Winter, Amnon Rapoport, Darryl A. Seale

Tacit coordination in large groups is studied in an iterated market entry game with complete information and multiple market capacities that are varied randomly from period to period. On each period,...

POTENTIAL MAXIMIZATION AND COALITION GOVERNMENT FORMATION

ROD GARRATT, JAMES E. PARCO, CHENG-ZHONG QIN, AMNON RAPOPORT

A model of coalition government formation is presented in which inefficient, non-minimal winning coalitions may form in Nash equilibrium. Predictions for five games are presented and tested...

In search of experimental support for an asymmetric equilibria solution in symmetric investment games

Rapoport, Amnon, Amaldoss, Wilfred

In one of their experimental studies, Rapoport and Amaldoss [Rapoport, A., Amaldoss, W., 2000. Mixed strategies and iterative elimination of strongly dominated strategies: an experimental...

Order of Play in Strategically Equivalent Games in Extensive Form

Amnon Rapoport

"Can we find a pair of extensive form games that give rise to the same strategic form game such that, when played by a reasonable subject population, there is a statistically significant difference...

Potential Maximization and Coalition Government Formation

Rod Garratt, Cheng-Zhong Qin, Jim Parco, Amnon Rapoport

We propose a theory of coalition government formation in which non minimal winning coalitions may form in equilibrium. Theoretical predictions for five games are derived and tested experimentally....

Collaborating to Compete: A Game Theoretic Model and Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Profit-Sharing Arrangement and of Alliance on Resource-Commitment Decisions.

Amaldoss, Wilfred, Meyer, Robert J., Raju, Jagmohan J., Rapoport, Amnon

In collaborating to compete, firms forge different types of strategic alliances: same-function alliances, parallel development of new products, and cross-functional alliances. A major challenge in...

Vickrey's model of traffic congestion discretized

Otsubo, Hironori, Rapoport, Amnon

Vickrey's seminal analysis of urban traffic congestion assumes a continuum of commuters acting selfishly and a continuous strategy space. We propose a discrete version of his model that assumes a...

Unique Bid Auction Games

Amnon Rapoport, Hironori Otsubo, Bora Kim, William E. Stein

Two auction mechanisms are studied in which players compete with one another for an exogenously determined prize by independently submitting integer bids in some discrete and commonly known strategy...

Choice of routes in congested traffic networks: Experimental tests of the Braess Paradox

Rapoport, Amnon, Kugler, Tamar, Dugar, Subhasish, Gisches, Eyran J.

The Braess Paradox consists of showing that, in equilibrium, adding a new link that connects two routes running between a common origin and common destination may raise the travel cost for each...