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Theodoros Diasakos
Theodoros Diasakos
Lecturer
 
Room: F6
University of St Andrews,
School of Economics and Finance,
St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AR,
Scotland, U.K.
Office Hours Mondays 14.00-16.00 (Candlemas 2013)
Tel: 2425
Email: td31@st-andrews.ac.uk
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About

Theo joined the School in October 2012. He was educated at the University of Cambridge (B.A. in Economics and M.Phil. in Economic Theory and Econometrics), at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University (MPA/ID), and at the University of California at Berkeley (M.A. in Mathematics, M.Sc.B.A. in Finance, and Ph.D. in Economics). His previous academic appointment was as assistant professor at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy.  


Teaching

Martinmas Semester 2012


Research Interests

Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Bounded Rationality, Financial Economics


Recent Publications


Working Papers

  • "A Simple Characterization of Dynamic Completeness in Continuous Time," Revision & Resubmission requested by Mathematical Finance 
  • "Comparative Statics of Asset Prices: The effects of Other Assets' Risk," Revision & Resubmission requested by The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
  • "Efficient Nash Equilibrium under Adverse Selection," with Kostas Koufopoulos
  • "Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence," with Nadia Campaniello and Giovanni Mastrobuoni, under review 
  • "Giving and the Nature of Communities: how the volunteering of others affects one's likelihood of engaging in volunteer work" with Florence Neymotin, under review
  • "Complexity and Bounded Rationality in Individual Decision Problems"


Work in Progress

  • "Optimal Myopia: an Axiomatic Approach to Bounded Rationality," with Paolo Ghirardato


 
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