Elias Tsakas

Welcome to my homepage. I was born in Athens, and grew up in Patras (2006 cultural capital of Europe), which is located on the west coast of Greece.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Maastricht University.

I am a founding member of EpiCenter, the Epistemic Game Theory Research Group at Maastricht University. I am also a member of the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies at Maastricht University.

I am also the coordinator of the MSc in Human Decision Science and the BSc in Economics and Business Economics at Maastricht University.

My Erdös Number is at most 4 (Paul Erdös ⇔ László Kóczy ⇔ Jean Jacques Herings ⇔ Christian Seel ⇔ myself). I do not have an Erdös-Bacon Number, yet.

A recent interview that I gave for The Reasoner.

My research focuses mostly on Game Theory, Decision Theory and Microeconomic Theory. I am also interested in Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Epistemic Logic, Information Theory and Political Economy.

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

• Growth and inequality in public good provision (with Simon Gaechter, Friederike Mengel and Alexander Vostroknutov). Journal of Public Economics 150 (2017), 1-13.

• Rationalizability and Nash equilibria in guessing games (with Christian Seel). Games and Economic Behavior 106 (2017), 75-88.

• Common belief of weak-dominance rationality in strategic-form games: a qualitative analysis (with Giacomo Bonanno). Games and Economic Behavior 112 (2018), 231-241.

• Robust scoring rules. R&R in Theoretical Economics (Previously titled: Eliciting prior beliefs)

• Noisy persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas) (NEW version!!! Submitted July 2018) 

• Obvious belief elicitation. R&R in Games and Economic Behavior

Last update: April 2019