Games and Economic Behavior

Games and Economic Behavior ( GEB ) is an economics journal which focuses on game theory and behavioral economics and is published by the Dutch publisher Elsevier with two issues per trimester. Games and Economic Behavior is also the official journal of the Game Theory Society.

History

Games and Economic Behavior was first published in March 1989 by Academic Press with Ehud Kalai as editor in chief. According Kalai the background for the founding of the magazine was to create a medium for the publication of research at the interface of theory and application, which should be clearly designed interdisciplinary. The academic self-concept of the magazine is marked explicitly by Kalai according to the research of John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, Maynard Smith, Kenneth Arrow and Seppo Honkapohja. The magazine was initially released with four issues per year, in 1994 with three issues per half-year, from 1995 to 2007 with two issues per quarter since 2008 with two issues per trimester.

Content

Games and Economic Behavior is to promote game-theoretical argumentation as a target the exchange between theories and applications. To this end, the journal intends the most significant and most creative products in interdisciplinary studies to draw from the field of social, life and mathematical sciences. The claim of Games and Economic Behavior is to be the leading journal on the subject of game theory. Research papers that are published in the journal, originate, among others the following areas: game theory, economics, political science, biology, computer science, mathematics, and psychology.

Editing

The editors of Games and Economic Behavior consists of editor in chief Ehud Kalai ( Northwestern University) and Vincent P. Crawford editors ( University of Oxford), Ehud teachers ( Tel Aviv University ), Thomas R. Palfrey ( California Institute of Technology) and David C. Parkes ( Harvard University) that are supported by Jennifer Byrd as Managing Editor and 69 Advisory Editor.

Reception

In a study of Kalaitzidakis et al. (2003) documented Games and Economic Behavior Course 11 of 159 evaluated publications, however, declined in an updated study of Kalaitzidakis et al. (2011) ranked 20 out of 209 compared Publications from. In economics publication ranking of the Tinbergen Institute at the University of Amsterdam is performed, the Journal of Monetary Economics in category A ("very good general economics journals and top journals in their field ").

The Impact Factor of Games and Economic Behavior was in 2012 at 1,000. In the statistics of the Social Sciences Citation Index, the magazine was done with this Impact Factor of 131 out of 333 journals in the category Economics.