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Georgios Gerasimou
(in Greeklish: Yórgos Yerasímou)

Personal

Born in October 1982 in Ródos (Rhodes).
Married to Yóta.   Father to Kostas

Employment

Education

Research Areas

Decision Making & Economic Theory

Methods: mathematical/quantitative, experimentational, computational

Working Papers

1. Learning to maximize ordinal and expected utility, and the indifference hypothesis
   Thomas Dohmen & Georgios Gerasimou
Revised: April 2025


2. Eliciting and distinguishing between weak and incomplete preferences: theory, experiment and computation
   Georgios Gerasimou
Revised: December 2024


3. Decision conflict, logit, and the outside option
   Georgios Gerasimou
Revised: November 2024


4. Intensinist social welfare and ordinal intensity-efficient allocations
   Georgios Gerasimou
Revised: January 2025 (interim update)


5. Status quo bias under risk when a decoy lottery is present
   Miguel Costa-Gomes & Georgios Gerasimou
   Revised: September 2023     Slightly longer older version here

Published Papers

1. (2024) Non-diversified portfolios with subjective expected utility, Economics Letters, 244, 112036
   Christopher P. Chambers & Georgios Gerasimou


2. (2024) Characterization of the Jaccard dissimilarity metric and a generalization, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 355, 57-61.
   Georgios Gerasimou


3. (2022) Choice, deferral and consistency, Quantitative Economics, 13, 1297-1318
   Miguel Costa-Gomes, Carlos Cueva , Georgios Gerasimou & Matúš Tejiščák
   Appendix   Data & Code   2016 version   2019 version   2020 version


4. (2022) Preference conditions for invertible demand functions, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 14, 113-138
   Theodoros M. Diasakos & Georgios Gerasimou


5. (2021) Simple preference intensity comparisons, Journal of Economic Theory, 192, 105199
   Georgios Gerasimou       2017 version       Corrections:   (i) JET Aug 2022   (ii) Example 2


6. (2019) Dominance-solvable multicriteria games with incomplete preferences, Economic Theory Bulletin, 7, 165-171
   Georgios Gerasimou


7. (2018) Prest: Open-source software for computational revealed preference analysis, Journal of Open Source Software, 3 (30), 1015
   Georgios Gerasimou & Matúš Tejiščák


8. (2018) On the indifference relation in Bewley preferences, Economics Letters, 164, 24-26
   Georgios Gerasimou


9. (2018) Duopolistic competition with choice-overloaded consumers, European Economic Review, 101, 330-353
   Georgios Gerasimou & Mauro Papi


10. (2018) Indecisiveness, undesirability and overload revealed through rational choice deferral , Economic Journal, 128, 2450-2479
    Georgios Gerasimou


11. (2016) Asymmetric dominance, deferral and status quo bias in a behavioral model of choice , Theory and Decision, 80, 295-312
    Georgios Gerasimou


12. (2016) Partially dominant choice, Economic Theory, 61, 127-145
    Georgios Gerasimou


13. (2015) (Hemi-)Continuity of additive preference preorders, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 58, 79-81
    Georgios Gerasimou


14. (2013) On continuity of incomplete preferences, Social Choice & Welfare, 41, 157-167
    Georgios Gerasimou


15. (2013) 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

Research Visits

Research Grants

Sole investigator in the British Academy Small Research Grant SG170747:
"A comparative analysis of inertia and context-dependence in decision making"
Grant period: April 2018 - March 2020. Amount: £7,720

Sole investigator in the Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant
"Status quo bias and the decoy effect"
Grant period: February 2017 - March 2018. Amount: £3,600

Principal investigator in the University of St Andrews Knowledge Exchange & Impact Fund Grant
"Development of decision analysis and preference estimation software using combinatorial-optimization methods"
Grant period: November 2017 - October 2018. Amount: £12,500

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

Invited Seminar Presentations

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/Israel Institute of Technology   |   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

2024: IX Hurwicz Workshop on Mechanism Design Theory (Warsaw, invited); Lancaster Psychonomics Workshop (invited);
EEA-ESEM (Rotterdam); Conference on Mechanism & Economic Design (Budapest);
SSCW (Paris); Bounded Rationality (Barcelona Summer Forum); Oligo Workshop (Crete)
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:
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; American Economic Review; 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; RAND Journal of Economics; Scottish Journal of Political Economy; Social Choice and Welfare;
Theory and Decision; Thinking and Reasoning

Guest Editor for Journals:
Special issue on Developing and testing theories of decision making for the Games open-access journal

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

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 (Seoul National University; online)
Session organizer at the 2022 SAET conference (Australian National University; online)

External Examiner in Taught Degrees

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


• Co-ordinator of the MSc in Economics (2012-15 & 2018-23) and MSc in Finance & Economics (2018-23)


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


• 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)

Scholarships & Prizes

• Wrenbury Scholarship, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, 2008-09 & 2010-11


• George & Marie Vergottis Bursary, Cambridge European Trust, University of Cambridge, 2008-11


• J. G. Semple Prize for the Best Project, Department of Mathematics, King's College London - University of London, 2006


• Best academic performance grants from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), 2001-03