Research interests: applied game theory, economic theory, financial regulation, monetary economics, behavioral economics

Teaching

• fall 2013. finance theory (undergraduate), game theory (undergraduate)

• spring 2014. Fixed income securities (undergraduate), microeconomic analysis II (undergraduate)

Research

Published papers in refereed journals

• “Spillover effects between fossil energy prices and non-energy commodity prices: further evidence from world spot markets” (forthcoming in International Journal of Global Energy Issues) (joint with Nicholas Apergis)

• "Arbitrage, strategic inefficiency and self-regulation" Review of Economic Design, March 2013, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp 27-41

• “Monetary policy with linear information costs” Journal of Economics, November 2013, Volume 110, Issue 3, pp 241-256

• "A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Convergence of Statistical to Strategic Equilibria of Market Games" International Game Theory Review 11.4 (2009): 479-489. (joint with Dimitrios P. Tsomocos)

• "Strategic market games quantal response equilibria" Economic Theory 27.2 (2006): 475-482

other publications

• "Finacial Stability, Investments and Growth" The International Crisis, the Crisis in Eurozone and the Greek Financial System (in greek). Ed. Gikas A. Hardouvelis and Christos Vl. Gkortsos. Athens: Hellenic Bank Association, 2011. (joint with Dimitrios P. Tsomocos).

working papers

• "Μood effects in optimal debt contracts" Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dimitris/8 (joint with Nicholas Apergis)

• "Achieving cooperation in the arms race game. Two new approaches"Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dimitris/5

current research

• “The role of collateralized securities in the conduct of monetary policy” (joint with Dimitrios P. Tsomocos)

• “Bounds to financial anarchy”

• “Natural deduction in normal form games”

recent talks & conferences

• SAET conference, paris 2013, brisbane 2012

• AEEFA conference taipei 2012

short bio

Dimitris Voliotis ia an Assistant Professor at the University of Piraeus. He conducts research on applied game theory with focus on strategic market games. He aims to understand the role of strategic behavior in market institutions, and their effect in optimal policy decision making. Before joining academia he served as an Economist at the Council of Economic Advisors of the Hellenic Ministry of Finance. He has been visiting lecturer at the doctoral program of University of Athens and at the graduate program of the department of applied mathematics of the National Technical University of Athens.

last update: May 2014