Elias Tsakas

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Working Papers:   

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

• Affective polarization and election expectations (with Maxim Doiron, Kaj Thomsson & Alexander Vostroknutov).

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

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

Inactive Working Papers: 

• Reasonable doubt revisited. 

• Identification of misreported beliefs. 

Ph.D. Thesis:

Essays on epistemology and evolutionary game theory, Department of Economics, Göteborg University (2008)

Selected Publications:

• 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.

• Robust scoring rules. Theoretical Economics 15 (2020), 955-987.

• Obvious belief elicitation. Games and Economic Behavior 118 (2019), 374-381.

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

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

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

• Past experience of uncertainty affects risk aversion (with Friederike Mengel & Alexander Vostroknutov). Experimental Economics 19 (2016), 151-176.

• Epistemic equivalence of extended belief hierarchies. Games and Economic Behavior 86 (2014), 126-144.

• Pairwise epistemic conditions for Nash equilibrium (with Christian Bach). Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014), 48-59.

• The target projection dynamic (with Mark Voorneveld). Games and Economic Behavior 67 (2009), 708-719.

Other Publications:

• Limited focus in dymanic games (with Andrés Perea). International Journal of Game Theory 48 (2019), 571-607.

• Agreeing to disagree with conditional probability systems. B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 18 (2018), 20160182.

• Common belief in approximate rationality (with Angie Mounir & Andrés Perea). Mathematical Social Sciences 91 (2018), 6-16. 

• Correlated-belief equilibrium. Synthese 193 (2016), 757-779.

• Rational belief hierarchies. Journal of Mathematical Economics 51 (2014), 121-127.

• Universally rational belief hierarchies. International Game Theory Review 16 (2014), 1440003.

• Pairwise epistemic conditions for correlated rationalizability. Mathematical Social Sciences 66 (2013), 379-384.

• Reasoning-based introspection (with Olivier Gossner).Theory and Decision 73 (2012), 513-523.

• On consensus through communication without a commonly known protocol (with Mark Voorneveld). Journal of Mathematical Economics 47 (2011), 733-739.

• Aggregate information, common knowledge, and agreeing not to bet. International Journal of Game Theory 40 (2011), 111-117.

• Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sample selection models (with Alpaslan Akay). Applied Economics 40 (2008), 3101-3110.

Publications in other fields:

• 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 (forthcoming).

• Giving added value to products from biomass: the role of mathematical programming in the product-driven process synthesis framework (with Aleksandra Zderic, Alexandra Kiskini, Cristhian Almeida Rivera & Edwin Zondervan). Computer Aided Chemical Engineering 46, 1591-1596.