Our Team

Professor of Economics

Spyros Galanis

I am a Professor in Economics at the Durham University Business School and Director of the Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms (DREAM Research Centre). My research interests include decision theory, game theory, experiments and finance. My main research focuses on the role that uncertainty, information and bounded perception have on decision making, and whether prediction markets aggregate and reveal information through prices.

Professor of Economics

Christos Ioannou

I am a Professor in Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Research Fellow at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne. My research interests include experimental and behavioral economics with a particular emphasis on the design of field and laboratory experiments to test intriguing hypotheses. Over the past few years, I also consult firms on how to improve the quality of their decisions through prediction markets.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sergei Mikhalishchev

I am an applied economist interested in Decision Theory, Behavioural Economics, Political Economy, and Public Economics. I focus on the implications of cognitive limitations (such as limited attention) and endogenous information acquisition. I am mainly interested in understanding mechanisms and acquiring new perspectives on topics with practical relevance such as affirmative action, the formation of populism, and the effect of new financial instruments on market efficiency, among others. While my work is most often theoretical, I conduct experiments and use other empirical methods in order to test the theoretical predictions and obtain new insights.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dominik Schmidt

I am PostDoc in Economics at the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1. Via a project funded by the ANR, I currently conduct experimental research to shed light on information aggregation in financial markets. In my PhD thesis, I analysed the effects and preferences over insider trading regulation. My academic background includes microeconomic fields, in particular game theory, together with behavioural economics and experimental economics.

Programmer

Harris Tsangaris

My main focus lies in the development and application of mathematical models to real-life scenarios, with the aim of analysing and predicting the behaviour of systems. Over the last 20 years I have had the opportunity to acquire knowledge by applying a number of numerical techniques to diverse domains, ranging from fundamental scientific research to engineering, finance, enterprise risk management and sport analytics. In serving these results, I was involved in the full development cycle of Software As A Service (SaaS) products, either in the form of Web Applications or Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), many of which have been deployed to the public cloud following modern architecture design patterns for both compute and data layers. I remain active in a number of projects as a technical consultant, following and contributing to the design and development of end products and services and advising on aspects of strategy that involve technology.

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Research funding

The project is funded by two research grants, from the UK and France

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Companies

We are currently running prediction markets with two companies

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Members

Our team consists of two professors, two post-doc researchers and one programmer