Elias Tsakas

Welcome to my homepage. I was born in Athens, and grew up in Patras, which is located on the west coast of Greece.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics (MPE) and PhD Director within the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) at Maastricht University.

I serve as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Coordinating Editor in Theory and Decision.

My research expertise lies on Game Theory, Decision Theory and Behavioral Economics. My current research focuses on the relationship among beliefs, information and behavior (e.g., how to measure beliefs, how beliefs are affected by information, how beliefs affect behavior, etc). I am also working on interesting applications within political science and sports. In the past, I have also worked on cooperation, risk preferences, epistemic game theory and evolutionary game theory, and occasionally on interesting mathematical problems within other fields.

My Erdös Number is (at most) 3. I do not have an Erdös-Bacon Number yet, but some day I would like to acquire one.

For contact details, see in my cv.

Recent selected working papers and publications (for a full list of papers, click here):

• A robust measure of complexity (with Egor Bronnikov). Preliminary version

• Sequential search with flexible information (with Pavel Ilinov, Andrei Matveenko, Salil Sharma & Mark Voorneveld).

• Belief updating with misinformation (with Lars Wittrock & Martin Strobel). 

• Belief identification by proxy. R&R in Review of Economic Studies

• Facts over partisanship: Evidence-based updating of trust in partisan sources (with Giannis Lois & Arno Riedl). R&R in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

• Procuring unverifiable information (with Salil Sharma & Mark Voorneveld). Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming)

Last update: January 2025