PANAYIOTIS M. POURPOURIDES
CARDIFF BUSINESS SCHOOL, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
&
CENTRAL BANK OF CYPRUS

During 2011-12:
Central Bank of Cyprus
80 Kennedy Avenue, CY-1076 Nicosia or

    EDUCATION
    Ph.D. Economics, University of Virginia, 2007
             Dissertation: Essays on Wages and Wage Inequality over the Business Cycle
             Supervisors: Professor Craig Burnside (chair), Professor Christopher Otrok
    M.A. Economics, University of Virginia, 2003
    B.Sc. Economics, University of Cyprus, 2001
   
    FIELDS OF INTEREST
    Business Cycle Theory, General Equilibrium, Macroeconomics of Labour Markets,
    Applied Time Series Econometrics
   
    CURRENT POSITION
    Lecturer of Economics (with tenure)
    Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, 2007-

    VISITING POSITIONS
    Senior Researcher 
    Economic Research Department, Central Bank of Cyprus, 2011-12

     REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
       * Implicit Contracts and the Cyclicality of the Skill-Premium, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Volume 35, 2011, 963-979 
      
      
* Risk Aversion, Exchange Rate Uncertainty and the Law of One Price: Insights from the Market for Online Air-Travel Tickets, 
         with Michael Arghyrou and Andros Gregoriou,
 Canadian Journal of Economics Volume 44, 2011, (3), 880-906
 
   
     PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
      
* 
On the Cyclicality of Real Wages and Wage Differentials, with Chris Otrok, revise & resubmit, Journal of the European Economic Association   

      * R&D and Aggregate Fluctuations, with Erhan Artuç, submitted
      
      * On Imperfect Competition with Occasionally Binding Cash-in-Advance Constraints, with Huw Dixon, submitted
   
 
      *
General Equilibrium with Monopolistic Firms and Occasionally Binding Cash-in-Advance Constraints, with Huw Dixon,
  
      * Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity: Evidence from the G7 Area, with Michael Arghyrou and Andros Gregoriou      
   
     WORK IN PROGRESS
       * Do Credit Shocks Drive House Prices?, with Chris Otrok
    
    TEACHING
    Cardiff University
    - Advanced Labour Economics (module leader), Ph.D. programme (year 2), 2007-
    - Dynamic Optimization in Economics (module leader), PhD programme (year 1), 2009-
    - Computational Macroeconomics (module leader), PhD programme, 2009-
    - Time Series Econometrics (undergraduate), 2011-
    University of Virginia
    - Econ 302: Intermediate Macroeconomics, 2006 (Fall and Spring)
    
    PH.D. SUPERVISION
    Cardiff University
    Joint Supervisor of the following PhD students:
    - Jing Dang (with Max Gillman), 

Essays on Human Capital and Business Cycles, 2010,

 

      Placement: State Grid Corporation in Beijing, Department of Asset Management


    - Michael Hatcher (with Patrick Minford), Should Central Banks Switch from Inflation to Price-Level Targeting? 
       Quantifying the Benefits from Long-Term Price Stability, 2011
       

 Placement: Oxford University, Wadham College

     - Hao Hong (with Max Gillman), Money, the Liquidity Effect and the Business Cycle, expected completion 2011


    PH.D. EXAMINING BOARDS
    Cardiff University

      - Internal examiner for Ms Yue Jiang, “Essays on Heterogeneity of Price Stickiness, Persistence of the Real Economy and Optimal Monetary Policy” January 2011

    
    MSc. (DISSERTATION) SUPERVISION
    Pei Tak Seak (2008), Christodoulou Andreas (2009), Nadir Ahmad (2009), Ou Yang Bo (2009), Mohammad Ali Jalil (2010), 
    Gareth Jones (2010)
        
    CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND VISITS
       - University of Cyprus (Seminars), Fall 2011, Spring 2011
       - Central Bank of Cyprus (Seminar), Fall 2011 
       - Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, 2011, “General Equilibrium with Monopolistic Firms and Occasionally Binding Cash-in-Advanced Constraints”
       - Workshop on 'New Developments in DSGE Models', University of Nottingham, December 2009,
       Discussant on Khan and Tsoukalas, 'Investment Shocks and the Comovement Problem' (Published Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control)
       - University of Cyprus (Seminar), Spring 2009
       - Koç University (Seminar), Spring 2009
     - Koç University, (short visit), Spring 2009
     - Canadian Economic Association, Toronto 2009, 'A New Solution to the Purchase Power
       Parity puzzles?: Risk Aversion, Exchange Rate Uncertainty and the Law of One Price'
     - Cardiff Business School (Seminar), Spring 2007
     - University of Virginia (Workshop), Fall 2006
     
    ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
    Cardiff University 

      - Recruiting team (interviewing for a lecturer post) for Cardiff Business School, Economics, 

       2008: American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans (with Max Gillman) and Royal Economic Society in London, UCL (with Kent Matthews)

     - Director of Economics Seminar Series, 2009-2011 

     - Director of internal workshops in economics, 2010-2011

     - Recruiting team (interviewing for a lecturer post) for Cardiff Business School, Economics, 2011: Royal Economic Society in London, City University (with Akos Valentinyi)

 
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES
    Cardiff University

      - Panelist for MSc students’ presentations: Gregynog, Wales, 2008, 2009, 2010

      University of Virginia

      - Teaching Assistant, 2002-2004 - Research Assistant for Professor Christopher Otrok and Professor John James, 2005

      Editorial Board, Journal of Financial Innovation

        
    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
    - Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education, United Kingdom 
     - Fellow, Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) 
     - Affiliated, Economic Research Forum, Koç University 
     - Member, Julian Hodge Institute of Applied Macroeconomics 
     - Member, American Economic Association 
     - Member European Economic Association
     - Member, Royal Economic Society
     - Member, Canadian Economic Association

    REFEREE
    Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Canadian Journal of Economics, 
    International Economic Journal, Virginia Social Science Journal, Contemporary Wales (University of Wales Press)
    
    AWARDS
    University of Virginia
    - DuPont Fellowship, 2005-2006
    - Bankard Predoctoral Fellowship: Bankard Fund for Political Economy, 2004-2005
    University of Cyprus
    - Prize of Bank of Development, 2001
    
    REFERENCES
    Craig Burnside, Duke University
    Christopher Otrok, University of Virginia
    Eric T. Swanson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
    Alexander Michaelides, University of Cyprus
    Christos Koulovatianos, University of Nottingham