Staff Catalogue

NIKOLAOS TSAKAS

TSAKAS NIKOLAOS
(+357) 2289 3688
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Economics
FEB 02 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 116
University Campus

Studied in the Engineering School of University of Patras (Civil Engineering Department, 2004-09) and then moved to Madrid, Spain for postgraduate studies in Economic Analysis (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2009-11), where he also completed his PhD thesis that focused on the study and analysis of social networks (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 20011-14). Subsequently, worked for one year as Postdoctoral Reseacrh Fellow in Singapore (SUTD-MIT international Design Center at Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2014-15) and since 2015 he has been a faculty member at the Department of Economics at University of Cyprus (Lecturer 2015-2019, Assistant Professor 2019-present).

He is a founding member of UCY LExEcon, the Laboratory for Experimental Economics at the University of Cyprus.

 

Current Teaching:

ECO251 - Topics in Microeconomics

ECO261 - Advanced Microeconomics

ECO601 - Microeconomic Analysis I

ECO604 - Analytical Methods in Economics

 

Past Teaching:

ECO651 - Microeconomic Analysis II

ECO415 - Game Theory

ECO301 - Topics in Microeconomics

ECO223 - Mathematics for Economics II

ECO312 - Industrial Organization

ECO362 - Structure and Strategy of Firms

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Fields:

  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Political Economy
  • Experimental Economics
  • Information Economics
  • Social and Economic Networks
  • Industrial Organization

Optimal Influence under Observational Learning, Mathematical Social Sciences (2024), 128, 41-51

The last temptation: Is group-based voting resilient to pivotal considerations? (with Dimitrios Xefteris), European Economic Review (2023), 160, 104619

Coordination with preferences over the coalition size (with Philippos Louis, Orestis Troumpounis and Dimitrios Xefteris), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022), 194, 105-123

Noisy Persuasion (with Elias Tsakas), Games and Economic Behavior (2021), 130, 44-61

Stress-Testing the Runoff Rule in the Laboratory (with Dimitrios Xefteris), Games and Economic Behavior (2021), 128, 18-38

Information Aggregation with Runoff Voting (with Dimitrios Xefteris), Journal of Economic Theory (2021), 191, 105130

Resisting Persuasion (with Elias Tsakas and Dimitrios Xefteris), Economic Theory (2021), 72, 723-742

Social Capital, Communication Channels and Opinion Formation (with Christos Mavridis), Social Choice and Welfare (2021), 56, 635-678

Vote trading in power-sharing systems: A laboratory investigation (with Dimitrios Xefteris and Nicholas Ziros), The Economic Journal (2021), 131, 1849-1882

On Decay Centrality, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (2019), 19(1)

The Effect of Entry on R&D Networks (with Emmanuel Petrakis), The RAND Journal of Economics (2018), 49(3), 706-750

Electoral Competition with Third party Entry in the Lab (with Dimitrios Xefteris), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2018), 148, 121-134

Diffusion by Imitation: The Importance of Targeting Agents, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2017), 139, 118-151

Beatable Imitation in Symmetric Games with Perturbed Payoffs, Mathematical Social Sciences (2015), 74, 34-40

Imitating the Most Successful Neighbor in Social Networks, Review of Network Economics (2013), 12(4), 403-435