Biography

BSc Economics, University of Crete
MSc Economic Theory and Policy, University of Crete
MSc Economics, University of Essex
PhD, University of Loughborough

Vasileios Zikos graduated with a BSc in Economics from the University of Crete in 2002. He then received a Masters degree in Economic Theory and Policy from the same institution in 2003 and a Masters in Economics from the University of Essex in 2005. In the same year he received a full scholarship from Loughborough University and in July 2009 was awarded a PhD in Economics from the same institution. Vasileios joined the University of Surrey as a Lecturer in September 2008. His research is focusing on germane issues in relation to R&D, networks, vertically related industries and labour unions.

Research Collaborations

• "Can stronger unions lead to more technology collaborations?", (with N. Rickman).
• "Wage-Setting Institutions and R&D Collaboration Networks", (with Ben Ferrett).

Publications

• “R&D Subsidies, Spillovers and Privatization in Mixed Markets”, Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming (with M.J. Gil Molto and J. Poyago-Theotoky).
• “Downstream R&D, raising rival’s costs, and input-price contracts: a comment on the role of spillovers”, Economics Bulletin, 2010, 30(4), 3018-3025 (with D. Kesavayuth).
• “R&D Collaboration Networks in Mixed Oligopoly”, Southern Economic Journal, 2010, 77(1), 189-212.
• “Endogenous Contracts in Unionized Oligopoly”, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2009, 23(2), 209-235 (with D. Kesavayuth).
• “Stackelberg mixed oligopoly with asymmetric subsidies”, Economics Bulletin, 2007, 12(13), 1-5.
• "Unions’ and firms’ attitudes towards Research Joint Ventures: When will the incentives be aligned?", Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2007, 21(1), 135-156 (with C. Manasakis).
• “A Reappraisal of the Irrelevance result in mixed duopoly: A note on R&D competition”, Economics Bulletin, 2007, 12(8), 1-6.