About

Anastasios (Tasos) Karantounias

Welcome to my webpage! I am an Associate Professor   at the     School of Economics, University of Surrey,  an academic visitor at  the Bank of England, an Associate of the  Centre for Macroeconomics (LSE branch), a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey, and a member of the Macro Finance Society.

I am a macroeconomist and my research interests lie in optimal fiscal and monetary policy, macro-finance,  ambiguity, imperfect information and climate change economics.

Previously, I worked as a Research Economist at the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.  I have been a Visiting Scholar at   Northwestern University and a Visiting Professor at  LUISS Guido Carli and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. I have taught previously at  Emory University. I hold a PhD in Economics from New York University

Conferences/workshops organized

• New: I organize the "Bristol-Surrey Workshop on Macroeconomics"  in March 2024. See here for details.

• I co-organize the "Macroeconomics Network in the Southwest'' Workshop. See here for details.

• I organize the "Surrey Workshop on Macroeconomics".  See here for details.

• I have  (co)-organized   the following contributed sessions for the ASSA Meetings:

1. Debt Management and Optimal Taxation (ASSA 2019)

2. Slowdown Risk: The Quest for Sustainable Growth (ASSA 2017)

3. Risk Premia and the Macroeconomy under Non-standard Preferences  (ASSA 2013).