Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) is a journal of game theory

Game theory

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 published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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. Founded in 1989, the journal's stated objective is to communicate game-theoretic ideas across theory and applications. It is considered to be the leading journal of game theory and one of the top journals in economics

Economics

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, and it is one of the two official journals of the Game Theory Society. Apart from game theory and economics, the research areas of the journal also include applications of game theory in political science

Political science

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, biology

Biology

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, computer science

Computer science

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, mathematics

Mathematics

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 and psychology

Psychology

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. The current editors of GEB are E. Kalai (Editor in Chief), M.O. Jackson, E. Lehrer, T.R. Palfrey, and D.C. Parkes.