NIKOLAOS TSAKAS
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
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