Costas Cavounidis

Curriculum VitaeLink opens in a new window
Contact details
Email: C dot Cavounidis at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room: S1.106
Advice and feedback hours: By appointment.
People are Saying....
- "The odds are better than 50/50 that AI will eliminate the jobs of the authors of the paper before it eliminates the truckers." - Marginal Revolution commenter on "Obsolescence Rents"
- "It took a research paper for white people to figure this out?" -The Atlantic commenter on "The Boss is Watching"
- "This is made up." - Fortune commenter on "The Boss is Watching"
Teaching (2022-23)
- EC220: Mathematical Economics 1A (Game Theory)
- EC9B8: Topics in Advanced Economic Theory 1
Research Interests
- Microeconomic Theory and
- Labor Economics
Grant
- "Dynamics of Occupation Choice, Skill Investment and Output Pricing with Multidimensional Skill", with Kevin Lang, National Science Foundation, $280K
Publications
- with , Journal of Political Economy (2020).
- (with and ), The Economic Journal (2024). Coverage: ,
Working Papers
- The Nature of Technological Change 1960-2016 (, and ) [KL&VD Talk @ NBER/SI/Personnel], R&R at Journal of Labor Economics
- (with and )
- [New!] Contracts From the Horse's Mouth: Subcontracting and Strategic Information (with )
- Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers and Impending Computerization (with , , and ). Coverage:
- Blackwell Equilibria in Repeated GamesLink opens in a new window (with , , and )
- Chunky Information and Adverse SelectionLink opens in a new window
Work in Progress
- The Content of Education, or Who Does What and Why (with , , )
- The Curses of Marriage: Signaling and Learning in Courtship (with and )
- Losing by Betting on Success (with )