Special issue in honor of Abraham Neyman

Abstract

The International Journal of Game Theory is proud to publish a special issue in honor of the contributions of Prof. Abraham Neyman to Game Theory. Abraham Neyman graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1977. His dissertaton, titled “Values of Games with a Continuum of Players”, was completed under the supervision of Robert Aumann and was awarded the Aharon Katzir Prize for an Excellent Ph.D. thesis. After graduation he obtained a visiting position at Cornell University, fromwhere he continued on to Berkeley. In 1982AbrahamNeyman joined theHebrew University of Jerusalem, where he participated in the founding of the Center for the Study of Rationality in 1991. In 1985 he became one of the founders of the Center for Game Theory at Stony Brook University, where he worked for 16 years, in 1989 he was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and in 1999 he was selected a Charter Member of the Game Theory Society. Abraham Neyman was the advisor of 12 Ph.D. students. He has thus far published 67 articles and co-edited three books. He has also been the co-organizer of numerous conferences and workshops. He served as the Area Editor for Game Theory in