Adam Brandenburger
NYU Stern School of Business,
44 West 4th Street,
New York, NY 10012
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Adam holds appointments at New York University as J.P. Valles Professor at the Stern School of Business, Distinguished Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, Faculty Director of the NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity + Innovation, and Global Network Professor. He was a professor at Harvard Business School from 1987 to 2002. He received his B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. Adam researches in the areas of game theory, information theory, and business strategy.
Selected Publications
Selected Refereed Articles
Agreement and Disagreement in a Non-Classical World
with Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Pierfrancesco la Mura, Giannicola Scarpa, and Kai Steverson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
2024
The Relationship Between Strong Belief and Assumption
with Amanda Friedenberg and H. Jerome Keisler, Synthese
2023
Coordination Via Delay: Theory and Experiment
by Ye Jin, Zhen Zhou, and Adam Brandenburger, Games and Economic Behavior
2023
Rényi Entropy, Signed Probabilities, and the Qubit
with Pierfrancesco la Mura and Stuart Zoble, Entropy
2022
Divisive Normalization is an Efficient Code for Multivariate Pareto-Distributed Environments
by Stefan Bucher and Adam Brandenburger, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022
Observers of Quantum Systems Cannot Agree to Disagree
by Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Giannicola Scarpa, Aleksander Kubicki, Adam Brandenburger, and Pierfrancesco la Mura, Nature Communications
2021
The Implications of Finite-Order Reasoning
with Alex Danieli and Amanda Friedenberg, Theoretical Economics
2021
Sell/Buy Bundling
with Barry Nalebuff, CPI Antitrust Chronicle
2021
Choice-Theoretic Foundations of the Divisive Normalization Model
by Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
2019
Axioms for the Boltzmann Distribution
with Kai Steverson, Foundations of Physics
2019
A Canonical Hidden-Variable Space
with H. Jerome Keisler, Annals Of Pure and Applied Logic
2018
Where Do Great Strategies Come Really Come From?
Strategy Science
2017
Team Decision Problems with Classical and Quantum Signals
with Pierfrancesco la Mura, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
2016
The Sheaf-Theoretic Structure of Non-Locality and Contextuality
with Samson Abramsky, New Journal of Physics
2011
Self-Admissible Sets
with Amanda Friedenberg, Journal of Economic Theory
2010
Intrinsic Correlation in Games
with Amanda Friedenberg, Journal of Economic Theory
2008
Admissibility in Games
with Amanda Friedenberg and H. Jerome Keisler, Econometrica
2008
The Power of Paradox: Some Recent Developments in Interactive Epistemology
International Journal of Game Theory
2007
Biform Games
with Harborne Stuart, Management Science
2007
An Impossibility Theorem on Beliefs in Games
with H. Jerome Keisler, Studia Logica
2006
Value-Based Business Strategy
with Harborne Stuart, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
1996
Epistemic Conditions for Nash Equilibrium
with Robert Aumann, Econometrica
1995
Hierarchies of Beliefs and Common Knowledge
with Eddie Dekel, Journal of Economic Theory
1993
Rationalizability and Correlated Equilibria
with Eddie Dekel, Econometrica
1987
Common Knowledge with Probability 1
with Eddie Dekel, Journal of Mathematical Economics
1987
Online Appendices
Coordination Via Delay: Theory and Experiment -- Online Appendix
by Ye Jin, Zhen Zhou, and Adam Brandenburger
2022
Choice-Theoretic Foundations of the Divisive Normalization Model: Online Appendix
with Kai Steverson, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher
2018
Supplement to Admissibility in Games: Appendices
with Amanda Friedenberg and H. Jerome Keisler
2008
Intrinsic Correlation in Games: Online Appendix
with Amanda Friedenberg
2007
Biform Games: Additional Online Material
with Harborne Stuart
2006
Selected Book Chapters/Conference Proceedings/Other
Choosers Adapt Value Coding to the Environment, But Do Not Attain Efficiency
By Vered Kurtz-David, Kenway Louie, Ambuj Dewan, Paul Glimcher, Vinayak Alladi, Agnieszka Tymula, Stefan Bucher, and Adam Brandenburger, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
2023
Rethinking Negotiation: A Smarter Way to Split the Pie
By Barry Nalebuff and Adam Brandenburger, Harvard Business Review
2021
The Rules of Co-opetition
with Barry Nalebuff, Harvard Business Review
2021
Agreement and Disagreement in a Non-classical World
with Patricia Contreras-Tejada. Pierfrancesco la Mura, Giannicola Scarpa, and Kai Steverson, proceedings of LFDSN 2019
2019
Strategy Needs Creativity
Harvard Business Review
2019
Fiber Products of Measures and Quantum Foundations
with H. Jerome Keisler, Logic & Algebraic Structures in Quantum Computing & Information
2016
No-Signalling is Equivalent to Free Choice of Measurements
with Samson Abramsky and Andrei Savochkin, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic
2014
An Operational Interpretation of Negative Probabilities and No-signalling Models
with Samson Abramsky, Horizons of the Mind
2014
Use of a Canonical Hidden-Variable Space in Quantum Mechanics
with H. Jerome Keisler, Computation, Logic, Games, and Quantum Foundations
2013
Fixed Points in Epistemic Game Theory
with Amanda Friendenberg and H. Jerome Keisler, in Samson Abramsky and Michael Mislove (ed.), Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow
2012
Origins of Epistemic Game Theory
in Vincent Hendricks and Olivier Roy (ed.), Epistemic Logic: Five Questions
2010
Epistemic Game Theory: Complete Information
in Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (ed.), the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
2008
The Games We Assay
Scientific American
2007
Interview
in Vincent Hendricks and Pelle Guldborg (ed.), Game Theory: Five Questions
2007
A Note on Kuhn’s Theorem
in Johan van Benthem, Dov Gabbay, and Benedikt Loewe (ed.), Texts in Interactive Logic: Proceedings of the 7th Augustus de Morgan Workshop
2007
On the Existence of a “Complete” Possibility Structure
in Marcello Basili, Nicola Dimitri, and Itzhak Gilboa (ed.), Cognitive Processes and Economic Behavior
2003
Books
2014
Recent Unpublished Articles
Event Valence and Subjective Probability
with Paolo Ghirardato, Daniele Pennesi, and Lorenzo Stanca
April 2024
The Limits of Social Cognition: Production Functions and Reasoning in Social Interactions
by Vered Kurtz-David, Adam Brandenburger, and Paul Glimcher
April 2024
Reevaluating the Shapley Value: A New Justification and Extension
with Barry Nalebuff
November 2023
Reevaluating the Shapley Value: Uniqueness of the Alpha-Procedure
with Barry Nalebuff
November 2023
Reevaluating the Shapley Value: The NTU Case
with Barry Nalebuff
November 2023
Quantum-Assisted Observatories in Space: Real-Time Coherence in Space Telescope Arrays via Shared Quantum States
with Pierfrancesco la Mura and Giannicola Scarpa
October 2023
A Brief Explanation of Large Language Models
by Foster Provost with Adam Brandenburger
September 2023
July 2023
Symmetry and the Sixth Force: The Essential Role of Complements
With Barry Nalebuff
June 2022
Two Approaches to Iterated Reasoning in Games
with Amanda Friedenberg and Terri Kneeland
December 2020
Using 'Proof-of-Presence' to Coordinate
with Kai Steverson
September 2020
Axioms for Rényi Entropy for Signed Measures
with Pierfrancesco la Mura
July 2019
Cooperative Games on Infinite Trees
with H. Jerome Keisler and Paula Miret
December 2018
Thinking About Thinking and Its Cognitive Limits
with Xiaomin Li
August 2015
Are Admissibility and Backward Induction Consistent?
with Amanda Friedenberg
February 2014
The Invisible Hand — Invisible Because It Does Not Exist?
with Harborne Stuart
December 2013
Slides
Recent Courses
The Strategist
2024
Creativity Considered
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Syllabus coming soon
2023
2023
Introduction to Game Theory (Slides)
2017