Prof. Dr. Loukas Balafoutas is a Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Exeter. Also, he has acted as Visiting Scholar at the University of Athens, Brown University, the University of California at San Diego, the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, and the University of Queensland.
Loukas co-founded the SFB (Special Research Area) on Credence Goods, Incentives and Behavior. He acts as Chairman of the Board at the Diligentia Foundation for Empirical Research and as a Board Member of the Austrian Economic Association (NOEG). Also, he has acted as Research Associate and External Consultant in the OECD Development Centre.
In total, Loukas has authored numerous articles, published or forthcoming, in a number of top-ranked outlets or appearing in working paper series, lecture notes, international conferences or edited volumes. He has published numerous articles in Journals indexed in the ABS list, among which several 4* and 3*Journals. Also, he has authored several articles in scholarly Journals with Impact Factor (IF), indexed in the Journal Citation Reports released by Thomson Reuters (ISI), including Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Economic and Political Studies, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of the Economic Science Association, etc. Loukas has also acted as Guest Editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology.
Prof. Dr. Balafoutas has been invited in several conferences and seminars (e.g. University of Southampton, University of Pennsylvania, Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, etc.), and has organized several workshops (e.g. 7th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics, Innsbruck Winter Summit – (Un)Ethical Behavior in Markets, etc). Finally, he has attracted funding from various sources, and has participated actively in several competitively funded Research Projects (e.g. Austrian Science Fund, Tyrol Science Fund, etc).
Loukas holds a BSc in Financial Management and Banking from the University of Piraeus, an MSc and a PhD in Economics, both from the University of Edinburgh.
