Name:
Theofanis "Fanis" Tsoulouhas Title: Professor Education: Ph.D., M.S. University
of Illinois, B.A. University of Athens Department: Economics Office: 4112 Nelson Address: Department of Economics,
Box 8110, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8110
Tel: (919) 513-2661 Fax: (919) 515-5613 Secretary's Tel: (919) 513-2562 or 2563 Main Page:Tsoulouhas.info EconPapers Page SSRN Page IDEAS Page RePEc Page E-mail:
Research Interests
Applied economic theory, with en emphasis on tournament theory and the economics of information.
Research
Tournaments and Contests
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here.
"Tournaments and Liquidity Constraints for the Agents," with Kosmas Marinakis. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here.
"Are Tournaments Optimal
over Piece Rates under Limited Liability for the Principal?" with
Kosmas Marinakis. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here.
"Tournaments with Ex Post Heterogeneous Agents," with Kosmas Marinakis. Economics Bulletin 4(41) (2007), 1-9. To read the abstract and download a PDF click here or here. The paper was on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for Theory.
"Contests to Become CEO:
Incentives, Selection and Handicaps", with Anup Agrawal and Charles
Knoeber. Lead paper in Economic Theory 30(2) (2007), 195-221. The paper was on SSRN's
Top Ten download list for the following journals: Internal and External
Contracting and Transaction Costs, Labor: Personnel Economics,
IO: Firm Structure, Purpose, Organization and Contracting, and Organizations
and Markets. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here or here.
"Are Outsiders Handicapped
in CEO Successions?" with Anup Agrawal and Charles Knoeber. Special Issue
on "Recent Developments in Corporate Governance" of the Journal
of Corporate Finance 12 (2006), 619-644. The paper was on SSRN's Top Ten download
list for the following journals: Organizations and Markets, Labor:
Personnel Economics, Strategy and Economics, Human Resource Management and
Personnel (Forthcoming), ORG Subject Matter Journals, MRN Organizational Behavior
Research Network, Business Policy & Strategy (Forthcoming),Management
Practice Abstracts,MGT Subject Matter Journals, MRN Management Network,
MRN Corporate Strategy and Business Policy Network, and POL Subject
Matter Journals. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here or here.
"Regulating Broiler Contracts: Tournaments
versus Fixed Performance Standards", with Tomislav Vukina. American
Journal of Agricultural Economics 83 (2001), 1062-1073. To read the abstract
and download a PDF file click
here or here.
"Integrator Contracts with
Many Agents and Bankruptcy", with Tomislav Vukina. American Journal
of Agricultural Economics 81 (1999), 61-74. The paper received the Best
Paper Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2000. To download
a PDF file click here.
"Do Tournaments Solve the Two-Sided
Moral Hazard Problem?"Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
40 (1999), 275-294. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here or here.
Organizational Structure and
Agent Behavior
"The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly: Agent Behavior and Efficiency in Open and Closed Organizations",
with Duncan Holthausen. Economic Theory 35 (2008), 73-97. To read the
abstract and download a PDF file click here or here. An earlier version (with three behavioral types) is available here.
Information Gathering/Transmission
"Gathering Information Before
Signing a Contract with a Privately Informed Principal", with Claudio
Mezzetti. International Journal of Industrial Organization 18
(2000), 667-689. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here or here.
"Strategic Transmission of
Information and Short-Term Commitment", with Charles M. Kahn. Economic
Theory 14 (1999), 131-153. To read the abstract and download a PDF file
click
here.
Financial and Labor Contracts:
One-sided Commitment and Optimality of Debt Contracts
"Renegotiation-Proof Labor
and Credit Contracts with Worker Mobility". Economica 66
(1999), 433-454. To read the abstract and download a PDF file click
here or here.
"Labor and Credit Contracts
with Asymmetric Information and Bankruptcy". European Economic
Review 40 (1996), 1665-1682. To read the abstract and download a PDF file
click
here or here.
Demography and Technology:
Boserup vs Malthus
"A New Look at Demographic
and Technological Changes". Explorations in Economic History
29 (1992), 169-203. To download a PDF file click here.
Other Selective Publications
"Game Theory". In
R. McAuliffe (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Volume V,
Managerial Economics. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell (1997).
Department
of Economics: Theofanis Tsoulouhas
