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, a one-year MSc program offered jointly by the School of Business and Economics (SBE) and the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht University.In some occasions, I enjoy writing popular articles on economics, politics and other topics of general interest.

During the Spring 2017 I will be on sabbatical in the Department of Economics at UC Davis.

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

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). R&R in Games and Economic Behavior

• Eliciting prior beliefs (NEW!!!)

• Limited focus in dymanic games (with Andrés Perea)

• Reasonable doubt revisited

• Noisy persuasion (with Nikolas Tsakas) (NEW!!!)

• Qualitative analysis of common belief of rationality in strategic-form games (with Giacomo Bonanno)

Last update: July 2017