On December 6, 2022, we lost a giant in the field of experimental economics. Professor Amnon Rapoport passed away at his home in Tucson, Arizona.

It is our great pleasure to announce a special issue in memory of Professor Rapoport’s contributions to the field of experimental economics. We are soliciting submissions related to Amnon’s work on topics such as coalition formation, bargaining, social dilemmas, behavioral operations management, queues, behavioral game theory, dynamic pricing, and behavior in directed networks, as well as individual decision making. We are specifically interested in contributions that clarify the conditions under which the rationality assumption provides useful prediction of human behavior.

Professor Rapoport was one of the pioneers of the experimental study and quantitative modeling of human decisions in interactive contexts. During his distinguished career, he published multiple books, edited volumes, and more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers and chapters in leading psychological, management, operation, marketing, decision theory, economics, and political science journals, and is recognized as a leading authority in many of these areas.

Professor Rapoport’s work focused on clarifying the conditions under which the rationality assumption provides useful predictions of behavior. It was theory-driven, and, in most cases, the theory was represented formally by mathematical (primarily, but not exclusively, game theoretical) models. He was a meticulous and rigorous, yet imaginative and creative, experimentalist, and was one of the first researchers to employ computerized experimentation to study individual and group decision making.

The deadline for submission is September 1, 2023, and our goal is to have the issue published in 2024. Please indicate in your cover letter that you are submitting for this special issue. All submitted papers will be refereed by the usual EE standards and procedures. Should you have any questions please email: rami.zwick@ucr.edu.