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Georgios Gerasimou
(in Greeklish: Yórgos Yerasímou)

Personal

Born in 1982. Married. One child.

Employment

Education

General Research Areas

Decision Making (Theory & Experiments)   |   Microeconomic Theory   |   Bounded Rationality & Behavioral Economics

Specific Themes

Preference intensities   |   allocations   |   incomplete preferences   |   choice deferral   |   indecision   |   choice overload   |  
context-dependent choice effects   |   consumer theory   |   decision experiments   |   revealed preference analysis

Active Working Papers

1. Efficient allocation with ordinal preference intensities
   Georgios Gerasimou
This version: July 2026. Submitted.
An earlier version contained additional material that will be fleshed out in a separate paper.


2. Convergence to utility maximization and the indifference hypothesis
   Thomas Dohmen & Georgios Gerasimou
This version: December 2025. Under revision for new submission.


3. Decision conflict, power logit, and the deferral outside option
   Georgios Gerasimou
This version: March 2026. Submitted.


4. Distilling models of bounded-rational choice: a constraint programming approach
   Özgür Akgün & Georgios Gerasimou
This version: September 2026. Submitted.

Published & Forthcoming Papers

1. (2026) Eliciting and distinguishing between weak and incomplete preferences: theory, experiment and computation, Games and Economic Behavior, 158, 737-762
   Georgios Gerasimou   Replication package


2. (2024) Non-diversified portfolios with subjective expected utility, Economics Letters, 244, 112036
   Christopher P. Chambers & Georgios Gerasimou


3. (2024) Characterization of the Jaccard dissimilarity metric and a generalization, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 355, 57-61.
   Georgios Gerasimou


4. (2022) Choice, deferral and consistency, Quantitative Economics, 13, 1297-1318
   Miguel Costa-Gomes, Carlos Cueva, Georgios Gerasimou & Matúš Tejiščák
   Appendix   Replication package   2016 version


5. (2022) Preference conditions for invertible demand functions, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14, 113-138
   Theodoros M. Diasakos & Georgios Gerasimou


6. (2021) Simple preference intensity comparisons, Journal of Economic Theory, 192, 105199
   Georgios Gerasimou       Corrections
   2017 working paper: Preference intensity representation and revelation


7. (2019) Dominance-solvable multicriteria games with incomplete preferences, Economic Theory Bulletin, 7, 165-171
   Georgios Gerasimou


8. (2018) Prest: Open-source software for computational revealed preference analysis, Journal of Open Source Software, 3 (30), 1015
   Georgios Gerasimou & Matúš Tejiščák


9. (2018) On the indifference relation in Bewley preferences, Economics Letters, 164, 24-26
   Georgios Gerasimou


10. (2018) Duopolistic competition with choice-overloaded consumers, European Economic Review, 101, 330-353
    Georgios Gerasimou & Mauro Papi


11. (2018) Indecisiveness, undesirability and overload revealed through rational choice deferral , Economic Journal, 128, 2450-2479
    Georgios Gerasimou


12. (2016) Asymmetric dominance, deferral and status quo bias in a behavioral model of choice , Theory and Decision, 80, 295-312
    Georgios Gerasimou


13. (2016) Partially dominant choice, Economic Theory, 61, 127-145
    Georgios Gerasimou


14. (2015) (Hemi-)Continuity of additive preference preorders, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 58, 79-81
    Georgios Gerasimou


15. (2013) On continuity of incomplete preferences, Social Choice & Welfare, 41, 157-167
    Georgios Gerasimou


16. (2010) Consumer theory with bounded rational preferences, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 46, 708-714
    Georgios Gerasimou   (special issue in honour of A. Mas-Colell, Part I)       postscript

Currently Inactive Work

• Status quo bias and the decoy effect: a comparative analysis in choice under risk
  arXiv:2006.14868

Research Visits

External Research Grants

Sole investigator in the British Academy Small Research Grant SRG26\260544
Grant period: October 2026 - September 2028. Amount: £10,000 (active grant)

Sole investigator in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Grant 6710
Grant period: September 2026 - August 2027. Amount: £5,000 (active grant)

Sole investigator in the British Academy Small Research Grant SG170747
Grant period: April 2018 - March 2020. Amount: £7,720

Sole investigator in the Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant 70541
Grant period: February 2017 - March 2018. Amount: £3,600

Principal investigator in the British Academy Small Research Grant SG122338
Grant period: April 2013 - September 2015. Amount: £7,582

Invited Seminar Presentations

University of Warwick Business School   |   University of Nottingham Business School   |   Nijmegen School of Management   |
University of Melbourne   |   University of Queensland   | University of Glasgow   |   Seminars in Economic Theory (online)   |
Heriot-Watt University (online)   |   University of Warwick   |   University of St Andrews (CS)   |   University of East Anglia   |
Royal Holloway, University of London   |   Johns Hopkins University   |   Georgetown University   |   College of William & Mary   |
Technion   |   Athens University of Economics & Business   |   University of Cyprus   |   University of Alicante   |   University of Aberdeen   |
Queen Mary, University of London   |   University of St Andrews

Conference Presentations

2026: FUR (Alicante)   |   BSE (Barcelona; Choice & Decision)   |   BSE (Barcelona; Bounded Rationality)
2025: World Congress of the Econometric Society (Seoul)   |   Conference on Economic Design (Essex)   |
Coalition Theory Network Conference (Paris)   |   Durham Economic Theory Conference (Durham)   |
Manchester Economic Theory Conference (Manchester)   |   Oligo Workshop (Cambridge)
2024: IX Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory (Warsaw, invited)   |   Lancaster Psychonomics Workshop (invited)   |
Economic Science Association Conference (Columbus)   |   EEA-ESEM (Rotterdam)   |   Oligo Workshop (Crete)
Conference on Mechanism & Economic Design (Budapest)   |   SSCW (Paris)   |   Bounded Rationality (Barcelona Summer Forum)
2023: Durham Economic Theory Conference   |   SAET (Paris)   |   SPUDM (Vienna)   |   EEA-ESEM (Barcelona)
2022: BRIC (Prague)   |   Durham Economic Theory Conference   |   SSCW (online)   |   FUR (Ghent)   |
SAET (online)   |   EEA-ESEM (Milan)
2021: SAET (online)
2019: SITE - Experimental Economics (Stanford)   |   RUD (Paris)   |   EEA-ESEM (Manchester)   |   RES (Warwick)
2018: NASMES (Davis)   |   SARP (Oxford)
2017: RUD (London)   |   AMES (Hong Kong)
2016: BRIC (Northwestern)   |   Bounded Rationality in Mechanism Design (Glasgow)   |
European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory (Glasgow)
2015: SAET (Cambridge)
2014: BRIC (Barcelona)   |   FUR (Rotterdam)   |   Behaviour, Incentives & Contracts (St Andrews)
2013: SAET (Paris)   |   AMES (Singapore)
2012: Behaviour, Incentives & Contracts (Edinburgh)   |   RES (Cambridge)
2011: EEA-ESEM (Oslo)
2010: RES (Surrey)   |   EEA-ESEM (Glasgow)   |   CRETE (Tinos)
2009: SAET (Ischia)

Professional Service

Referee for Journals: (alphabetical order)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics   |   American Economic Review   |   Discrete Applied Mathematics   |   Economic Journal   |   Economic Theory   |
Economic Theory Bulletin   |   Economics and Philosophy   |   Economics Letters   |   Games and Economic Behavior   |   International Economic Review   |
Journal of Economic Theory   |   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization   |   Journal of Economic Psychology   |   Journal of Mathematical Economics   |
Mathematical Social Sciences   |   Mathematics and Financial Economics   |   Quantitative Economics   |   RAND Journal of Economics   |   Review of Economic Studies   |
Scottish Journal of Political Economy   | Social Choice and Welfare   |   Theoretical Economics   |   Theory and Decision   |   Thinking and Reasoning

Guest Editor for Journals:
Games special issue on Developing and testing theories of decision making (2022)

Referee for Book Publishers:
Bloomsbury   |   Cambridge University Press   |   Palgrave Macmillan   |   Routledge

Referee for Funding Bodies:
British Academy   |   Belgian Fund for Scientific Research   |   Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

Conference Organization
Organizer of the 1st SARP (Symposium on the Analysis of Revealed Preference; 2016, University of St Andrews)
Co-organizer of the 2nd SARP (2018, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
Session co-organizer at the 2021 SAET conference (online)
Session organizer at the 2022 SAET conference (online)

External Examiner in Taught Degrees

• Co-creator and co-director of the St Andrews Experimental Economics Lab: 2013-23


• Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies in Economics & Finance: 2018-23


• Co-ordinator of the MSc in Economics: 2012-15 & 2018-23


• Co-ordinator of the and MSc in Finance & Economics: 2018-23


• Member of the Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences steering committee: 2022-23


• Member of the School's Management Board: 2018-23


• Member of the School's Teaching Committee: 2012-15 & 2018-23


• Member of the School's ATHENA SWAN Self-Assessment Team: 2017-19


• Member of the University's Academic Advising Best Practice Group: 2018-19


• Senior Honours Advisor in Economics & Finance: 2016-18


• Member of the School's PhD Student Review Committee: 2016-18


• Member of the School's Research Ethics Committee: 2017-18