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Education

BA Economics - Athens University of Economics and Business Greece 1990
MA Economics - Athens University of Economics and Business Greece 1992
MS Mathematics - University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana 1996
Ph.D. Economics - University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana 1998

Areas of Expertise

Specialties

Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Game Theory

Selected Works

Articles

Rennhoff, Adam and Serfes, Konstantinos . "The role of upstream-downstream competition on bundling decisions: Should regulators force firms to unbundle?" JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 18.2 (Summer 2009):547-588

Rennhoff, Adam and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Retailer price distributions and promotional activities" ECONOMICS LETTERS 103. (Mar 2009):91-95

Serfes, Konstantinos . "Endogenous matching in a market with heterogeneous principals and agents." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GAME THEORY 36. (Feb 2008):587-619

Bernhardt, Dan , Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Product customization" EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 51. (Jan 2007):1396-1422

Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Market Segmentation and collusive behavior" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION 25. (Jan 2007):355-378

Kim, Hyunho and Serfes, Konstantinos . "A location model with preference for variety" JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS LIV.4 (Jan 2006):569-595

Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Customer information sharing among rival firms" EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW 50. (Jan 2006):1571-1600

Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Imperfect price discrimination, market structure and effciency" CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 38. (Jan 2005):1191-1203

Serfes, Konstantinos . "Risk sharing vs. incentives: Contract design under two-sided heterogeneity." ECONOMICS LETTERS 88. (Jan 2005):343-349

Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Imperfect price discrimination in a vertical differentiation model" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION 23. (Jan 2005):341-354

Liu, Qihong and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Quality of information and oligopolistic price discrimination" JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 13.4 (Jan 2004):671-702

Deltas, George and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Semicollusion vs. full collusion: The role of demand uncertainty and product substitutability" JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 2. (Jan 2002):111-139

Roy, Jaideep and Serfes, Konstantinos . "When vagueness induces indirect competition: Strategic incompleteness of contracts" ECONOMIC THEORY 20. (Winter 2002):603-621

Roy, Jaydeep and Serfes, Konstantinos . "Intertemporal discounting and tenurial contracts" JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 64. (Jan 2001):417-436

Deltas, George , Serfes, Konstantinos and Sicotte, Richard . "American shipping cartels in the pre-world war I era" RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY 19. (Jan 1999):1-38

Books

Serfes, Konstantinos and Yannelis, Nicholas C.. Collusion and distribution of profits under differential information :Springer-Verlag, Jan 1999

Awards

2005 Excellence in Research Award (LeBow College of Business)

1998 Robert Willis Harbeson memorial dissertation fellowship (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)

1996 Hans Brems award for the best original paper (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)

Professional Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY Jul 1998-May 2004

Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Drexel University Sep 2004-Aug 2008

Graduate Director for the Economics Department, Drexel University Sep 2008-present

Distinguished Fellow, Center of Research Excellence, LeBow College of Business Oct 2008-present

Grants

Price discrimination in two-sided markets (NET Institute) $6,000 Jun 2007

Location Decisions of Competing Platforms (NET Institute) $3,000 Jun 2009

WWW Resources

http://www.lebow.drexel.edu/serfesk