Elias Tsakas |
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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 and upcoming events where I was invited to talk:
A very interesting workshop in Athens on Rethinking Economic Theory where I am invited to talk in December 2024.
I am looking forward to giving a seminar at Corvinus University in Budapest in November 2024.
I had a great time giving a talk in October 2024 in the Microtheory seminar series at the Adam Smith Business School in Glasgow.
Second time I was invited in June 2024 to Barcelona for one of the nicest workshops on Preferences, Bounded Rationality and Strategic Interactions.
A very interesting workshop on Dynamic Contracts and Learning in St. Gallen where I was invited to give a talk in June 2024.
A great conference on decision theory where I gave a talk in Northwestern in June 2024.
A very nice PhD summer school in Warsaw where I taught in July 2024.
Another very nice conference on Economic Theory in Warwick where I was invited to give a talk in March 2024.
Two very interesting workshops on strategic communication in which I was invited, in Paris (September 2022) and in Graz (February 2023).
Some interviews I have given in the past:
An interview that I gave for Euronews (in greek) on the outcome of the 2023 Dutch Elections.
An interview that I gave for The Reasoner.
Recent selected working papers and publications (for a full list of papers, click here):
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
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error-detection networks (with Giannis Lois, Kenneth Yuen & Arno Riedl). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 19 (2024), nsae056.
Procuring unverifiable information (with Salil Sharma & Mark Voorneveld). Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming)
Noisy persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas). Games and Economic Behavior 130 (2021), 44-61.
Common priors under endogenous uncertainty (with Pierfrancesco Guarino). Journal of Economic Theory 194 (2021), 105254.
Resisting persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas and Dimitrios Xefteris). Economic Theory 72 (2021), 723-742.
Last update: October 2024