Text Box: Alexandros Karakostas
Text Box: Contact Details

E-mail:      a.karakostas@uea.ac.uk

Address:  Department of Economics, 
               University of East Anglia 
               Norwich NR4 7TJ 
               United Kingdom
 


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 Alexandros is a fourth year PhD student. Before joining the UEA he obtained a Bachelor in Economics at Coventry University and a Masters in PPE: Economics and Philosophy at the University of York.  In the current stage he is on the writing up process of his PhD. He is supervised by Professor Daniel Zizzo and Dr Anders Poulsen

 

Education

 

2008 - Present            PhD in Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

                                     (Supervisors: Professor Daniel Zizzo, Dr Anders Poulsen)

2007 - 2008                 MA PPE: Economics and Philosophy, University of York, York, UK

                                     (Supervisor: Dr. John Bone)

2005 - 2007                 BA Economics, University of Coventry, Coventry, UK

                                     (Supervisor: Dr. Keith Gray)

 

Research Interests

 

Principal-Agent Theory, Behavioral Economics, (Anti)Social Preferences, Economics and Corruption, Responsibility and Economic Decision Making.

 

Teaching Positions

    

Teaching Assistant, University of East Anglia

  

2011 – 2012          Economics and Society (1st year)

2010 – Present     Economics for Business (1st year)

2009 – Present     Economic Concepts (Master)

2010 – 2011          Mathematical Economics (2nd year)

2010 – 2011          Quantitative Methods (2nd year)

2009 – 2010          Introductory Microeconomics (1st year)

2009 – 2010          Introductory Macroeconomics (1st year)

2009 – 2010          Strategic Thinking (2nd year)

 

Other Positions

 

2010 – Present     Member of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the Department of Economics, UEA

2009 – Present     Member of the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS)

2009 – 2010          Lab Assistant

 

Prizes, Grants & Awards

 

2008 – 2011      Faculty of Social Science PhD Research Studentship Award

      2010           CBESS Research Grant, UEA   (£3.000).

      2010           Social Science Faculty Grant, UEA (£1.000).

      2010           2nd Place in the Postgraduate Student Essay Competition with Fabio Galleotti, UEA (£500). The essay was titled “The Promise of Behavioural Economics” published in Norwich Economic Papers

 

Presentation at Workshops/Conferences

 

Annual CREED-CeDEx-CBESS Meeting, Amsterdam (2010)

Annual CREED-CeDEx-CBESS Meeting, Nottingham (2011)

GESY & GESS (University of Mannheim) summer school “Incentives and behavioral economics”, Bronnbach (2010) (by E. Winter and U. Gneezy)

 

Working Manuscripts

 

“Achieving Fairness through Different Routes”

“An Experimental Investigation of the Tenuous Trade-Off between Risk and Incentives”