Published Papers

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Social Threshold Regression,” with A. Konstantinidi and Y. Sun,  Journal of Econometrics, 235, 2057-2081, 2023. [click here for the pdf]

Multiple Regimes in Preferences for Redistribution,”  Bulletin of Economic Research,   forthcoming.

Robust Correlates of Growth Spells: Do Inequality and Redistribution Matter?” with C. Tsangarides, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84:1302-1328, 2022.  [click here for the pdf

The Role of Social Interactions in Preferences for Redistribution,” with K. Petrou, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 716-737, 2022. [click here for the pdf]

The Great Gatsby Curve,” with S. Durlauf and C. M. Tan,  Annual Review of Economics,  Vol. 14, 2022. (accepted).

"Schools Opening and Covid-19 Diffusion: Evidence from Geolocalized Microdata” with E. Amodio, M. Battisti,  G. Maggio, C. M. Maida, European Economic Review, 2021. [click here for the pdf]

"The Great Gatsby Curve in Education with a Kink," 2021, Economics Letters, 208, 2021. [click here for the pdf]

Endogeneity in Semiparametric Threshold Regression,” with T. Stengos and Y. Sun, 2021,  Econometric Theory, [click here for the pdf] and [supplement] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266466621000256

Local Measures of Intergenerational Mobility,” with C. M. Tan and C. Marr,  European Economic Review, 126, 2020. (click here for the working paper version)

"Socio-Econonomic Inequalities and Organized Crime: An Empirical Analysis," with M. Battisti, G.  Bernardo, A. Konstantinidi, and A. M. Lavezzi, Understanding Recruitment to Organized Crime and Terrorism , eds.  Weisburd, D., Savona, E.U., Hasisi, B., Calderoni, F. (Eds.), 2020.

 “Measuring the Strength of the Theories of Government Size,” with A. Lenkoski and K. Petrou,  Empirical Economics, 59, 2185-2222, 2020.

Barriers to Price Convergence,” with M. Glushenkova and M. Zachariadis, Journal of Applied Econometrics , 33, 1081-97, 2018.

Status Traps,” with Steven N. Durlauf and Chih Ming Tan, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 35:2, 265-287, 2017.

Structural Threshold Regression,” with Thanasis Stengos and Chih Ming Tan, Econometric Theory 32, 2016, 827–860.

"Robust Determinants of Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Opportunity," with C. Marr and C. M. Tan,  European Economic Review, 18, 132-147, 2016.

Robust Multiple Regimes in Growth Volatility, ” with I. Stylianou and C. M. Tan, Empirical Economics, 48, 461-491, 2015.

 “Failure to Launch? The Role of Land Inequality in Transition Delays, ” with I.  Stylianou and C.  M.  Tan, European Economic Review, 62, 98-113, 2013.

 “The Effect of Public Debt on Growth in Multiple Regimes, ” with T.  Stengos and C. M. Tan, Journal of Macroeconomics, 38, 35–43, 2013.

Should Macroeconomic Forecasters Use Daily Financial Data and How?” with E. Andreou, and E. Ghysels, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2013.

Is God in the Details? A Reexamination of the Role of Religion in Economic Growth,” with S. N. Durlauf and C. M. Tan, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27, 1059-75, 2012.

Modeling Parameter Heterogeneity in Cross-country Regressions,” in Frontiers in Economics and Globalization, Vol. 11, Economic Growth and Development, Emerald, 2011.

"Forecasting with Mixed-frequency Data," with E. Andreou and E. Ghysels, in Oxford Handbook of Economic Forecasting, edited by Michael P. Clements and David F. Hendry, 2011.

 "Do Institutions Rule?  The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate," with C. M. Tan and T. Stengos, Economics Bulletin, 30, 1710-1719, 2010.

Regression Models with Mixed Sampling Frequencies,” with E. Andreou and E. Ghysels, Journal of Econometrics, 158, 246-261, 2010.

"Are any Growth Theories Robust?" joint with S. N. Durlauf and C. M. Tan, The Economic Journal,118, 329–346, 2008.

Empirics of Growth and Development,” with S. N. Durlauf and C. M. Tan, International Handbook of Development Economics, eds. A. Dutt and J. Ros, Volume 1, Edward Elgar, 2008.

Varying Coefficient Models,” with Thanasis Stengos, in the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, eds. Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.

 "Is the Relationship Between Aid and Economic Growth Nonlinear?" with C. M. Tan and X. Zhang, Journal of Macroeconomics, 29, 15–540, 2007.  

"The Local Solow Growth Model,"   with S. N. Durlauf and A. Minkin, European Economic Review, Vol. 45 (4-6) pp. 928-940, 2001.