Publications

• Chowdhury, S. M. & Karakostas A. (2019) An Experimental Investigation of the ‘Tenuous Trade-off’ between Risk and Incentives in Organizations. Theory and Decision.

• Karakostas, A., Sonntag, A., & Zizzo, D. J. (2017). Contract Choice: Efficiency and Fairness in Revenue‐Sharing Contracts. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119(4), 962-986.

• Karakostas, A., & Zizzo, D. J. (2016). Compliance and the power of authority. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 124, 67-80.

  • Media coverage: BBC, Pacific Standard.

  • Two years after its publication, it is featured in the journal’s list of most downloaded articles for the last 90 days, along with papers by Nobel laureates Richard Thaler and Joseph Stiglitz and world-class academics in my field, Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy.

Working Papers

• The Team Allocator Game: Allocation Power in Linear, Weakest-Link and Best-Shot Public Good Games (with M. Kocher, D. Matzat, H. Rau and G. Riewe) - Available upon request

• Bribing to Queue-Jump: A Cross Country Experiment in Greece and Germany (with V. Grimm and A. Drichoutis) - ppt slides, working paper

In Progress

• Curiosity (with J. Celse and D. J. Zizzo) - Writing up

• Double Moral Hazard in Relational Contracts (with C. Adjei and D. S. Monteiro) - Writing up

• Social Comparisons in risk taking (with G. Morgan and D. J. Zizzo) - Writing up

• Virtue Signalling in Credence Goods Markets (with L. Balafoutas) - Data Collection

• Virtue Signalling in (Hidden) Action! - Experimental Design