My research focuses on industrial organization, cooperative game theory and, lately, on experimental economics.
Recent Working Papers
Tax buyouts in oligopoly (under submission)
Partition function games with probabilistic beliefs (under submission)
Firms' onwership structure and social welfare: An experimental study (with Zormpas D. Petrakis M., Proestakis A., Skartados P., in progress)
Publications
Giuranno M., Scrimitore M., and Stamatopoulos G. (2022) Vertical integration under optimal taxation: a consumer surplus detrimental result, Economics Letters (forthcoming)
Leonardos, S., Petrakis E., Skartados P., Stamatopoulos G. (2021) Partial passive ownership holdings and licensing, Economics Letters, vol. 204. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109910.
Stamatopoulos G. (2021) The core of economies with multilateral environmental externalities, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 23, 158171
Stamatopoulos G. (2021) Bidding for tariff exemptions in international oligopolies, International Tax and Public Finance, 28, 515-532.
Stamatopoulos G. (2020) Bargaining over a license: A counterintuitive result, International Journal of Economic Theory, 17, 471-478.
Stamatopoulos G. (2020) On the γ-core of asymmetric aggregative games, Theory and Decision, 88, 493-504.
Giuranno M., Scrimitore M., and Stamatopoulos G. (2020) Managerial accountability under yardstick competition, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming, 10.1515/bejte-2019-0037)
Sen D. and Stamatopoulos G. (2018) Decreasing returns, patent licensing and price-reducing taxes, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (forthcoming)
Stamatopoulos G. (2016) Cournot and Stackelberg equilibrium under strategic delegation: an equivalence result, Theory and Decision, 81, 553-570
Sen D. and Stamatopoulos G. (2016) Licensing under general demand and cost functions, European Journal of Operational Research, 253, 673-680
Stamatopoulos G. (2016) The core of aggregative cooperative games with externalities, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 16, 389-410
Sen D. and Stamatopoulos G. (2014) When an inefficient competitor makes higher profit than its efficient rival, Operations Research Letters, 43, 148-150
Lekeas P. and Stamatopoulos G. (2014) Cooperative oligopoly games with boundedly rational firms, Annals of Operations Research, 223, 255-272
Stamatopoulos G. and Vlassis M. (2012) Can prices be insensitive to unit cost variations? A game-theoretic alternative to the "kinked demand curve" explanation, Economics Letters, 116, 89-91
Lekeas P. and Stamatopoulos G. (2011) Strategic delegation in a Stackelberg game with multiple stages, International Game Theory Review, 13, 341-352
Matsumura T., Matsushima, N. and Stamatopoulos G. (2010) Location equilibrium with asymmetric firms: the role of licensing, Journal of Economics, 99, 267-276.
Stamatopoulos G. and Tauman T. (2009) On the superiority of fixed fee over auction in asymmetric markets, Games and Economic Behavior, 67, 331-333.
Sen D. and Stamatopoulos, G. (2009) Drastic innovations and multiplicity of optimal licensing policies, Economics Letters, 105, 7-10.
Sen D. and Stamatopoulos, G. (2009) Technology transfer under non-constant returns to scale, The Manchester School, 77, 337-365.
Stamatopoulos G., Janson C., Sengupta A., and Vogel E. (2009) A game-theoretic model of coalition formation in non-human primates, Journal of Bioeconomics, 11, 165-183
Stamatopoulos G. and Tauman Y. (2008) Licensing of a quality-improving innovation, Mathematical Social Sciences, 56, 410-438
Other Publications
Stamatopoulos G. (2008) On the possibility of licensing in a market with logit demand functions, Economics Bulletin, 4, 1-11