Founding Members
Costas Azariadis is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis and with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He has taught at Brown, Pennsylvania, Princeton, UCLA and elsewhere, and has conducted research on contract theory, poverty traps and multiple equilibria.
Harris Dellas holds the chair of Macroeconomics and is director of the Institute of Political Economy at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He is also a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Co-editor of Open Economies Review and Αssociate Εditor of the Journal of Money Credit and Banking. He has served on the faculty of Vanderbilt University (USA), the University of Maryland (USA), the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), and the University of Bonn (Germany). He has been a consultant to several Central Banks (ECB, Banque de France, SNB, USFRB, Hong Kong, etc) and international organizations. His main research interests are in monetary and international economics.
Nicholas Economides is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and Founder and Executive Director of the NET Institute. His research focuses on the economics of network industries, antitrust, public policy, telecommunications, and the Internet. He has previously taught at Columbia University and Stanford University. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org, a world-wide focal point for research on the economics of network and high technology industries. His web site on the Economics of Networks at http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/ has been ranked as one of the top four economics sites worldwide by The Economist magazine. He has advised the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the governments of Canada, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, and Portugal, the Attorneys General of New York and Texas, Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of Greece, Financial Exchanges, and major telecommunications and high technology companies.
John Geanakoplos is Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Michael Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is Director of the Center for Financial Studies (CFS). He is also Director of the Master’s Program in Money and Finance, Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, and International Research Fellow of NETSPAR (The Netherlands). He has taught at the Universities of Maryland, Cyprus, and Frankfurt and has repeatedly visited the European University Institute as Part Time Professor. His main research interests lie in Household Finance. He is an advisor to the European Central Bank on the creation and analysis of a Eurozone database on household finances and consumption and a member of the Greek National Council on Research and Technology (ESET).
Yannis Ioannides has been at Tufts University since 1995 as the Max and Herta Neubauer Professor in Economics. Previously he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the Athens School of Economics and Business, Athens, Boston University and Brown University. His current research interests are in urban macro economics, social interactions and networks, and housing markets. He served as a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Social Interactions and Economic Inequality, 1998–2006 and has published scholarly articles in many leading journals including: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, and Journal of Urban Economics.
Costas Meghir is Professor of Economics at Yale University and University College London.
Chris Pissarides is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He specialises in the economics of the labour market. In 2011 he will serve as the elected President of the European Economic Association. He is also an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Society of Labor Economists. He has served as an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus and on the European Employment Task Force. He has been a consultant on employment policy for the World Bank, the European Commission and the OECD. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious IZA Prize in Labor Economics and in 2008 the “Aristeion” for Science of the Republic of Cyprus.
Thanasis Stengos is Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada and he is Deputy Director of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis in Rimini, Italy. He has held visiting positions at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, the University of Cyprus, the University of Bologna at Rimini and the European University Institute in Florence as a Jean Monnet Fellow. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and Empirical Economics, and he is co-editor of the review of Economic Analysis.
Dimitri Vayanos is Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics, where he also directs the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality. Prior to coming to the LSE in 2004, he was faculty member at Stanford and MIT. He is Director of the Financial Economics programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in the United States, an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and a consultant to the European Central Bank. His main research interests are in financial economics and microeconomics.
Nikos Vettas is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He has taught at Duke University in the US and INSEAD, France. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, International Journal of Industrial Organization and Journal of Industrial Economics, and is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the Chief Economist Team, DG-Competition of the European Commission.
Other Contributors
Michael G. Arghyrou is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Cardiff Business School, where he directs the MSc programmes in Economics. He has recently been a visiting researcher at the DG-ECFIN of the European Commission. His main research areas are Macroeconomics, International Finance, the Economics of the EMU and the Greek economy. In recent months he has been doing extensive research on the euro area sovereign debt crisis, jointly with John Tsoukalas and Alexandros Kontonikas. This research has received significant attention from academics, policy-makers and international media.
Manthos Delis is senior lecturer in Banking and Finance at Cass Business School at City University. Prior to joining Cass, he taught at the Universities of Ioannina and of Central Greece. He received his PhD in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. His PhD thesis focused on the performance, efficiency and market power of the banking sector, and his more recent work focuses of bank risk, financial stability and regulation. His articles have been published in international academic journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Development Economics. In December 2009 he was included in the list of IDEAS with the top 100 young economists in the world.
Jacques Delpla is a member of the Conseil d’Analyse Economique in Paris. He has taught in HEC and Institut de Sciences Politiques.
Manolis Galenianos is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Pennsylvania State University and member of the scientific board of “Generation 700 Euros.”
Nikos Georgantzis is Professor of Economic Theory and Experimental Economics at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain), where he has founded the Laboratorio de Economia Experimental (LEE), hosting a 20-member research team. He holds the Chair for Research Excellence sponsored by the Junta de Andalucía at the University of Granada, where he founded the Experimental Economics Lab «Αιγαίο» and is currently the Director of the Postgraduate Programme of the Economics Department. His research covers a broad range of areas such as Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics, and Economics and Psychology.
Dimitris Hatzinikolaou is Associate professor of Economics at the University of Ioannina. After receiving his PhD in Economics from the University of Connecticut, he served as Lecturer B at Flinders University of South Australia, where he earned tenure. His main research interests are in macroeconomics and applied econometrics. He has published a number of articles in international refereed journals, including Journal of Development Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics, and Labour.
Chrysafis H. Iordanoglou is Assistant Professor of Economics at Panteion University of Athens. He has previously taught at the University of Crete. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. His current research interests revolve around the post-war economic history of Greece.
Pantelis Kammas is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Ioannina. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. His former positions include Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the Universities of Peloponnese and Cyprus. His current research interests include fiscal policy in open economies and political economics. He has published articles in international academic journals, including European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and Cesifo Economic Studies.
Loukas Karabarbounis is Assistant Professor of Economics and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. While at Harvard he earned numerous awards and distinctions for his dissertation and his teaching. His research interests include international finance, business cycles, fiscal policy, political economy and labor and gender economics.
Yannis Katsoulacos is Vice-rector, Athens University of Economics and Business since 2007 and Professor of Economics since 1994. Post-graduate Studies Director in Applied Economics and Finance (2000 – ). PhD in Economics from LSE in 1984. Was Research Fellow of the Centre of Economic Policy Research (CEPR, 1992 – 2001), Member of the Greek National Committee of Economic Advisors (2002 – 2004) and Commissioner of the Hellenic Competition Commission (1995 – 2005). Has been principal researcher or consultant for the CEU and the World Bank in a large number of projects dealing with various aspects of micro-economic policy since 1991. In the last few years he has served as consultant in competition cases to a large number of the major Greek corporations. Since 2006 he organizes an Annual International Summer School and Conference in Competition and Regulation in Greece (www.cresse.info).
Alexandros Kontonikas is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow Business School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Economic and Financial Studies. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in 2005, he was a lecturer at Brunel University. He has served as Visiting Research Fellow at the DG-ECFIN of the European Commission. His main research interests lie in the area of financial economics with a special focus on the interaction between monetary policy and equity pricing, and the investigation of the factors that determine sovereign bond yield spreads in the Eurozone.
Andreas Koutras is a professional in financial derivatives, structuring and debt. He has worked at Lehman Brothers, BMO, RBC and Calyon Credit Agricole. In recent years he has become a specialist on the periphery debt crisis and the ECB operations. He studied Astrophysics, Advanced Applied Mathematics and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity at Cambridge and London University where he got his PhD. He has published in refereed journals in the fields of Mathematics and Astrophysics, and more recently in financial industry magazines like RISK and FOW. Currently, he works at In Touch Capital Markets, a financial information, training and intelligence company based in London, where he is a cofounder.
Miltiadis Makris is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, UK. After finishing his MSc studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business, he was awarded a PhD in Economics by the University of Essex, UK. He has taught at the UK Universities of Bristol, Exeter and Leicester. He has published in leading international academic journals. His main research interests are in microeconomics, public economics, international economics and political economics. He has commented in UK media and has taken part in panel discussions on the Greek economy.
Spyros Pagratis is Lecturer of Financial Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Department of Economics. Prior to coming to the AUEB in 2009, he was a Member of Staff at the Bank of England, where he worked in Financial Stability, Systemic Risk Assessment, with an emphasis on the UK Banking System. He completed his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Hyun Song Shin, with sponsorship from the Bank of England. His research interests include international finance, credit cycles and policies to promote financial stability.
Elias Papaioannou is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. During 2010-2012 he is Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University’s Department of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the London Business School. Prior to joining Dartmouth, he worked at the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank. His research covers the areas of international finance, political economy, growth and development. It has been published in many leading peer-refereed journals and has been recognized with the 2005 Young Economist Award by the European Economic Association and the 2008 Austin Robinson memorial prize by the Royal Economic Association. Elias consultants regularly for the EU Commission, the European Central Bank, for Ana-Lysis, and institutional investors
Emmanuel Petrakis is Professor of Industrial Organization and Policy in the Department of Economics, University of Crete, where he has founded the Business Economics and New Technologies Lab (BENETeC). He is Vice-rector of Economic Planning and Development and Head of the Special Research Account of the University of Crete from 2007. He was Visiting Professor in Universities of The Netherlands, Cyprus and Spain (where he taught for six years in U. Carlos III de Madrid). His research covers a wide range of fields in Economics, such as Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, International Trade, Labor Economics, and Economics of Innovation and New Technologies.