Date of Birth: 3-3-1973
Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Greece
Professor In Macroeconomics and Dept. Head (from Feb. 15, 2023 to date)
Department of Finance
University of Luxembourg
6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
Campus Kirchberg, F 202
L-1359
Luxembourg
Email: christos.koulovatianos()uni.lu
Tel.: +352-46-66-44-6356
Fax: +352-46-66-44-6341
EDUCATION
· Ph.D. Economics, University of Rochester, 1999
· M.A. Economics, University of Rochester, 1998
· Ptyhio (B.Sc.-equivalent) Economics/Business, Arista (summa cum laude, highest class GPA), Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
· Professor in Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Luxembourg, September 2012 - December 2018
· Associate Professor in Macroeconomics (with tenure), School of Economics, University of Nottingham, September 2009 - August 2012
· External Fellow, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, from September 2010 to date
· Fellow, Center for Finance, Credit Markets and Macroeconomics (CFCM), University of Nottingham, from September 2009 - August 2012
· Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Department of Economics, University of Exeter, from October 2008 – Sept. 2009
· Visiting Full Professor, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, and Research Fellow, Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt, Germany, from October 2007 to September 2008
· Assistant Professor, Univ. of Vienna, Austria, from September 2004 to 2008
· Lecturer, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus, from September 2000 to August 2004
· Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Public Finance, Univ. of Kiel, Germany, 1999-2000
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Topic Editor, Journal of Risk and Financial Management (from March 2021 to date)
Associate Editor, Journal of Developing Areas (from Jan. 2017 to date)
Managing Coeditor, Journal of Income Distribution (from Jan. 2016 to Jan. 2019)
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES
2014 June – Keynote Address, “Fitting Parsimonious Household Portfolio Models to Data” 2nd Household Finance Conference, Central Bank of Luxembourg
FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND HONORS
· Grant for studying “Nonperforming Mortgage Loans in Luxembourg and the EU after Covid-19”, Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), June-Nov. 2020 (50,000 Euros, Principal Investigator).
· Internal Grant for conducting surveys on the career/fertility tradeoff in macro models (U Luxembourg, 20,000 Euros), 2013-2017
· Center for Financial Studies Fellowship on Macroeconomic Expectations and Bayesian Learning from October 2007-2011 (collaborator Volker Wieland)
· Austrian Science Fund Fellow for Strategic Fiscal and Monetary Policies, (with research group coordinator Gerhard Sorger), 2007-2008
· Austrian Science Fund Fellow for Strategic Savings Decisions and Growth, Project P17886 (with research group coordinator Gerhard Sorger) 2004-2006
· Leventis Foundation Fellow for Understanding the Composition of Household Wealth (with research group coordinator Michael Haliassos) 2001-2003
· RTN Participant, the Economics of Aging in Europe, University of Cyprus (with node coordinator Michael Haliassos), 2002-2006
· TMR Grant for the study of Income Distribution and Tax Policies, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, 1999-2000
· W. Allen Wallis Fellowship for the study of Political Economy, Financed by the NSF - USA, Univ. of Rochester, 1995-97
· Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Rochester, 1995
· University of Rochester Tuition Scholarship, 1994 – 99
· Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate study in the U.S. 1994 – 99
· Highest Honors for the Highest GPA (1994 class Oath Pronouncement), Dept. of Economics/Business, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki 1994
· Alexandros Onassis Foundation Scholarship for 1995-96 (initially offered but declined due to coverage by the Wallis Fellowship)
PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
· Symmetric Markovian Games of Commons with Potentially Sustainable Endogenous Growth, 2021, with Zaruhi Hakobyan, Dynamic Games and Applications, Vol 11, 54-83.
· The Role of Labor-Income Risk in Household Risk-Taking, 2020, with Sylwia Hubar and Jian Li, European Economic Review, Vol 129, Article 103522, 1-24.
· The Long Shadows of War in China: Battle Shocks in Early Life and Health/Wealth Accumulation, 2020, with Jian Li, China Economic Review, Vol. 60, Article 101394, 1-40.
· Do Demographics Prevent Consumption Aggregates From Reflecting Micro-Level Preferences?, 2019, with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt, European Economic Review, Vol. 111, 166-190.
· Market Fragility and the Paradox of the Recent Stock-Bond Dissonance, 2018, with Jian Li and Fabienne Weber, Economics Letters, Vol. 162, 162-166.
· Strategic Exploitation of a Common Property Resource under Rational Learning About its Reproduction, 2015, Dynamic Games and Applications, March, Vol. 5(1), pp. 94-119.
· Strategic Exploitation of a Common Property Resource under Uncertainty, 2013, with Elena Antoniadou and Leonard J. Mirman, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, January, Vol. 65(1), pp. 28-39.
· Saving Rates and Portfolio Choice with Subsistence Consumption, 2012, with Carolina Achury and Sylwia Hubar, Review of Economic Dynamics, January, Vol. 105(1), pp. 108-126.
· Evidence on the Insurance Effect of Redistributive Taxation, 2010, with Charles Grant, Alex Michaelides, and Mario Padula, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 92(4), pp. 965-973.
· Per Capita Income Versus Household-Need Adjusted Income: A Cross-country Comparison, (2009), with Polina Minkovski and Carsten Schröder, Journal of Income Distribution, 18 (3-4), pp. 11-23.
· Optimal Growth and Uncertainty: Learning, 2009, with Leonard J. Mirman and Marc Santugini, Journal of Economic Theory, January, Vol. 144, pp. 280-295.
· Non-Market Household Time and the Cost of Children, 2009, with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, January, Vol. 27(1), pp.42-51.
· Arbeitslosengeld II: Arbeitsanreize und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit, 2008, with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt, Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer, Vol. 88(7), pages 461-466.
· The Effects of Market Structure on Industry Growth: Rivalrous Nonexcludable Capital, 2007, with Leonard J. Mirman, Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 133, March, pp. 199-218.
· Properties of Equivalence Scales in Different Countries, 2005, with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt, Short paper (Complement of the paper "On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales"), Journal of Economics, Vol 86, pp. 19-27
· On the Income Dependence of Equivalence Scales, 2005, with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 89(5-6), June, pp. 967-996.
Book chapters and edited volume introductions
· Income-Dependent Equivalence Scales and Choice Theory: Implications for Poverty Measurement, (2023), co-authored with Carsten Schröder, “Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation”, Jacques Silber Eds., Edgar Publishing, ISBN 9781800883444, Ch. 4, pp. 39-49.
· Income Distribution and the Family, (2009), co-authored with Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt, and Christian Seidl, Editorial Introduction to the Special Volume “Income Distribution and the Family”, Journal of Income Distribution, 18 (3-4), pp. 3-10.
· A Glance at Some Fundamental PublicEconomics Issues Through a Parametric Lens, 2005, "Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare," Schmidt, U., Traub, S. (Eds.), Vol. 38, 2005, ISBN 0-387-25705-5, Hardcover, Springer
RESEARCH MANUSCRIPTS
· Combining a Survey Experiment with a Lifecycle Model to Evaluate Pronatalist Policies, with Joshua Goldstein, Jian Li, and Carsten Schröder, 2023.
· Rational Noncooperative Strategic Exploitation of Species in a Predator-Prey Ecosystem with Random Disturbances, 2023, Revised and Resubmitted, Dynamic Games and Applications.
· Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China's One-Child Policy, with John B. Donaldson, Jian Li, and Rajnish Mehra, 2023, NBER Working Paper No. 24256, Revised and Resubmitted, Macroeconomic Dynamics.
· Asset Pricing under Rational Learning about Rare Disasters, with Volker Wieland, 2020, Older version: CEPR Discussion Paper 8514.
· Increasing Taxes After a Financial Crisis: Not a Bad Idea After All..., with Dimitrios Mavridis, 2019, CFS WP No. 614, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3289947
· Populism and Polarization in Social Media Without Fake News: the Vicious Circle of Biases, Beliefs and Network Homophily, with Zaruhi Hakobyan, 2019, CFS WP No. 626, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435817
· The role of Labor-Income Risk in Household Risk-Taking, with Sylwia Hubar and Jian Li, 2018 – Revise and Resubmit in European Economic Review
· On the Granular Origins of Incremental Technical Change, 2018 (major improvements in progress)
· Rational Noncooperative Strategic Exploitation of Species in a Predator-Prey Ecosystem with Random Disturbances, 2007 (major improvements in progress)
· Family-type Subsistence Incomes, 2007, co-authored with Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt (supporting paper to the 2019 EER paper)
· Skill-Biased Technological Change in Economic Development, 2006 (major improvements in progress)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Guest Editorial Service Journal of Income Distribution (JID),Guest Co-editor
· Special Double volume of JID for year 2009 “Income Distribution and the Family” (together with Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt, and Christian Seidl)
· Special Double volume of JID for year 2015 “Crises and the Distribution” (together with Charlotte Bartels, Timm Bönke, and Carsten Schröder)
Board Affiliate of INTERTIC (International Think-tank on Innovation and Competition), November 2005 – September 2009
Regular Member of the managing committee of ASECU (Association of South Eastern Europe Economic Universities), January 2001 - August 2004
Referee
American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Automatica, Berkeley Electronic Press (Studies in Non-Linear Dynamics and Econometrics), Bulletin of Economic Research, Economic Theory, Dynamic Games and Applications, Economica, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Finanzarchiv, Grant Agency Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Indian Growth and Development Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Population Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Oxford Economic Papers, Quantitative Finance, the RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Seminar Series and Conference Organizing
· local co-organizer, “A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union” – Oct. 8-9, 2020 in Luxembourg (scheduled)
· co-organizer, “Crises and Distribution” – Sept. 29-30, 2014 in Berlin
· main organizer, CFCM workshop on Household finance, Housing Markets and Macroeconomics, Nottingham, May 6, 2011.
· organizer, Seminar Series in Economics, Univ. of Exeter, Spring 2009.
· co-organizer, “Income distribution and the family” –Sept. 1-3, 2008 in Kiel (Keynote speakers: Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution), Matthias Doepke (Northwestern), Jeremy Greenwood (UPenn), Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser Univ.), Ray Rees (Munich), Michele Tertilt (Stanford))
· co-organizer, Seminar Series in Macro/Finance, with Michael Haliassos and Lenos Trigeorgis, from Spring 2001 to August 2004
· co-organizer, AS.S.E.T. 2002 Annual Meetings (Paphos, Cyprus, October 31-November 2, 2002) Annual Meetings of the Association of Southern European Theorists
· co-organizer, Joint TMR-HERMES Conference on Savings, Portfolios, and Pensions (Paphos, Cyprus, March 30-31, 2001) Main Organizer: Michael Haliassos
CONFERENCE DISCUSSIONS
· Discussion of “The Performance of Marketplace Lenders: Evidence from Lending Club Payment Data” by Roman Kräussl, Zsofa Kräussl, Joshua Pollet, and Kalle Rinne, 7th Asset Management Summit, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg , 15 October 2018.
· Discussion of “Fast and Slow Informed Trading” by Ioanid Rosu, Workshop on Algorithmic Trading: Impact on Market Behavior, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg , 11-12 June 2018.
· Discussion of “Short-term reversals, returns to liquidity provision and the costs of immediacy” by Kalle Rinne and Matti Suominen, 2nd EBC Network Workshop 10-12 May 2017, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg , 10-12 May 2017.
· Discussion of “Who is Eager to Save for Retirement: Cross-Country Evidence” by Anna Kaliciak, Radoslaw Kurach and Walid Merouani, LIS/LWS Users Conference 2017, Luxembourg Income Study, Esch-Belval, Luxembourg , April 27-28, 2017.
· Discussion of “On the diversity of asset holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009” by Eva Sierminska and Jacques Silber, 4th Luxembourg Workshop on Household Finance and Consumption, Central Bank of Luxembourg, Luxembourg , June 30-July 1, 2016.
· Discussion of “Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Shocks in Dynastic Models” by Larry E. Jones (U Minnesota, Minneapolis Fed, NBER) and Alice Schoonbroodt (U Southampton), Workshop on ‘Household Behaviour, Household Finance, Housing, and Macroeconomics’, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, 6 May 2011.
· Discussion of “Booms and Busts in Asset Prices” by Klaus Adam and Albert Marcet, Conference in Honor of Volker Wieland’s 10 years in Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, December 15, 2010.
· Discussion of “Risk Premiums and Mactroeconomic Dynamics in a Heterogeneous-Agents Model”by Ferre De Graeve, Maarten Dossche, Marina Emiris, Henri Sneessens, Raf Wouters, Workshop “New Developments in DSGE Models”, Nottingham, December 4, 2009.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
· Microfoundations in Measurement and Theory, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2023
· Rethinking Economic Theory 2023, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies, Nafplion, Greece, May-June 2023
· Sixth Annual Conference on Network Science in Economics, U Chicago (initially planned for April 2020, postponed for a year and became online), March 2021
· Eleventh Workshop on Dynamic Games in Management Science, Montreal, October 2019
· 2nd Global Macroeconomics Workshop, Marrakech, April 2018
· AEA Annual Winter Meetings, Chicago, January 2017
· Conference on Sovereign Debt, U Glasgow, August 2016
· Seminar, Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt, June 2015
· Seminar, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, January 2015
· Conference, Challenges in the Field of Economic and Financial Crime in Europe, University of Luxembourg (Law), Luxembourg, December 2014
· Seminar, University of Venice,Venice, November 2014
· Conference, Behavioral Aspects in Macro-Finance, SAFE, Catholic U of Milan, Milan, November 2014
· Conference, 2nd Household Finance Conference, Central Bank of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Keynote speaker)
· Conference, NHH UiO, Oslo, June 2013
· Seminar, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, April 2012
· Seminar, University of Bristol, Bristol, January 2012
· ECB conference, Information, Beliefs and Econ. Policy, Frankfurt, Germany, Dec. 2011 (Discussant: Philippe Weil)
· Conference, Role of Beliefs in Decision Theory, Paris, France, November 2011
· Conference, Society for Economic Dynamics, Ghent, Belgium, July 2011
· Seminar, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 2011
· Conference, Macroeconomics and Survey Data, Munich, Germany, October 2010
· Seminar, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK, October 2010
· NBER Summer Institute, Boston US, July 2010
· Conference in Public Economics, Marseille, France, June 2010
· Seminar, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, May 2010
· Seminar, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, May 2009
· Seminar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, April 2009
· Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Philadelphia PA, May 2008.
· Seminar, University of York, York, UK, April 2008
· Seminar, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, April 2008
· Seminar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, March 2008
· Seminar Series, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, February 2008
· Seminar Series, University of Reading, Reading, UK, November 2007
· Seminar Series, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2007
· European Meetings of the Econometric Society, 2006, Vienna, Austria, August 2006
· Seminar Series, University of Linz, Linz, Austria, May 2006
· Seminar Series, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany, May 2006
· Wegmans Conference 2005, Rochester NY, USA, October 2005
· 2nd Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop, Vienna, Austria, October 2005
· 7th RTN AGE meeting, Venice, Italy, October 2005
· 6th RTN AGE meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2005
· Seminar Series CERGE, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2004
· Seminar Series (Erich-Schneider-Forschungsseminares), Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, October 2004.
· SED 2004 meetings, Florence, Italy, July 2004
· Seminar Series, University Of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, June 2004
· Seminar Series, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2004
· CHILD Workshop on Consumer Behavior and Welfare, Verona, Italy, May 2004
· RTN AGE meeting, Edesheim, Germany, May 2004
· EPCS 2004 Conference, Berlin, Germany, April 2004
· 8th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Non-linear Dynamics, Vienna, May 2003.
· RTN AGE meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2002
· EPCS 2002 Conference, Belgirate, Italy, March 2002
· Joint TMR-HERMES Conference on Savings, Portfolios, and Pensions, paper discussant, Paphos, Cyprus, March 2001
· Conference on Inequality, Living Standards and Taxation, Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, November 2000.
· 5th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice And Welfare , Alicante, June-July 2000
· 7th Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Non-linear Dynamics, Vienna, May 2000.
· Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Economics Dept. Seminar Series, April 2000.
· Seminar Series in Macro Finance, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, March 2000.
· Conference on Inequality, Living Standards and Taxation, Bordeaux, January 2000.
· IIES, Stockholm, Seminar Series, Dec. 1999.
· Seminar Series (Erich-Schneider-Forschungsseminares), Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, April 1999.
· Theories and Methods in Macroeconomics, Montreal, May 1999.
· Midwest Macroeconomics Conference, Pittsburgh PA, April 1999.
· Seminar Series in Macro Finance, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, February 1999.
· The Economics of Industrial Structure and Innovation Dynamics, Lisbon, October 1998.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate
· MSc level Financial stability (Master’s in Quantitative Economics and Finance – preparatory for PhD students), University of Luxembourg, Spring Semester 2019-20 to date
· PhD level Macroeconomics, University of Luxembourg, from Fall Semester 2013-14 to date.
· MSc level Advanced mathematics (Master’s Research Track – preparatory for PhD students), University of Luxembourg, Fall Semester 2013-14, 2014-15.
· MSc level Economics of Banking, University of Luxembourg, Spring Semester 2013-14 (very good teaching evaluation).
· PhD level Macroeconomics, University of Nottingham, Fall Semester 2011 (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Advanced Macroeconomics, University of Nottingham, Fall Semester 2009, 2010, Spring Semester 2010, 2011, 2012 (excellent teaching evaluations).
· Numerical Methods (2nd-year Ph.D.-program and Master's in Quantitative Economics and Finance course), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Spring 2009 (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Macro for Business MSc. Students (International Management), Exeter, Fall Semester 2008 (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Advanced Macro (joint Ph.D.-program and Master's in Quantitative Economics and Finance course - compulsory material for the Macro Ph.D. qualifying exams), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Fall 2007-2008 (very good teaching evaluation).
· Numerical Methods in Economic Dynamics (joint Ph.D.-program and Master's in Quantitative Economics and Finance course - compulsory material for the Macro Ph.D. qualifying exams), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Spring 2008 (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Economic Growth and Development (Master's in Quantitative Economics course), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Spring 2008 (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Blockseminar Economic Growth (19 students), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Spring 2008. (excellent teaching evaluation).
· Advanced Macro (joint Ph.D. program and Master's in Economic Analysis course - compulsory material for the Macro Ph.D. qualifying exams), University of Cyprus, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004 (excellent teaching evaluations).
· Principal Master’s thesis advisor.
University of Luxembourg: Ana Ivli, Edvard Bakhitov (PhD student at UPenn), Anastasia Chaikina (PhD student at U Michigan), Leonid Smirnov (Analyst at Amazon), Nikita Gaponiuk (PhD student at U Luxembourg), Alena Podaneva (PhD student at U Luxembourg), Daria Matviienko (PhD student at Stanford GSB).
University of Nottingham: Thomas Bland, Boubacar Drame, Jonathan Hodgson, Best Ojighoro, Weiyan Qin, Egor Gornostay (PhD Student at NYU), Bhavin Raval, Thomas Sgouralis, Ashley Siboo, Ho Nam Tam, Daniel Redrupp, Arav Patel, Aleks Hughes, Chun Yat Jacky Li, Elchin Mustafayev, Alexandra Toader (PhD Student at Northwestern), Faizan Yousefzai, Anup Mulay (PhD student at Boston College), David Tribe, Dai Shi.
University of Exeter: Antonio Bova, Christos Dimitriou, Ahmad Al-Saidi.
· Master's thesis committees, University of Cyprus, for Dimitris Mavridis (first appointment as research fellow and PhD student in DELTA, Paris), Dimitris Ioannides (first appointment student in Biology, Univ. of Cyprus).
Undergraduate
University of Luxembourg
· Macroeconomics for Business students (Professional Bachelor’s – about 150 students), Spring 2013, 2014, 2015.
University of Nottingham
· Numerical Methods (3rd-advanced Undergraduate class), Spring 2011, Fall 2011.
· Advanced Macroeconomics, University of Nottingham, Fall Semester 2009.
· Principal undergraduate thesis supervisor for 13 students.
University of Exeter, Spring 2009.
· Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management.
· Economic Growth Policies.
Goethe University of Frankfurt, Fall 2007-2008.
· Introductory Macro (class size 260 students – excellent teaching evaluation).
University of Vienna, from Oct. 2004 to date
· Introductory Macro, Fall 2004-2006, Spring 2005-2007, Fall 2004-2006, Spring 2005-2007.
University of Cyprus, from 2000 to August 2004
· Intermediate Macro, Spring 2003, Spring 2004.
· Public Economics, Fall 2001, Fall 2003.
· Economic Development, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.
· Economic Growth, Fall 2000, Fall 2002.
· Supervised 32 undergraduate 4th-year theses, all with empirical applications.
University of Rochester, summer course instructor
· Financial Markets: Concepts and Institutions, summer 1999.
· Economic Growth and Development, summer 1999.
· Development Economics, summer 1998.
Teaching Assistant
University of Rochester, from 1996 to 1999, for:
· Corporate Finance (for Prof. Sergio Rebelo),
· Intermediate Macroeconomics (for Prof. Steve Landsburg),
· Microeconomics (for Prof. Steve Landsburg).
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, 1993,
· Intermediate Microeconomics (for Prof. George Papachristou).
TEACHING INTERESTS
Graduate
Finance/Asset Pricing, Banking, Macroeconomics, Numerical Methods in Macroeconomics and Finance, Finance, Topics in Continuous-Time Stochastic Optimization, Growth/Development Economics Political Economy, Dynamic Non-cooperative Game Theory, Dynamic Contract Theory.
Undergraduate
Corporate Finance, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Public Economics, Game Theory, Principles of Economics.
Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION OR SERVICE AS EXAMINER
University of Luxembourg
· Dimitris Mavridis, Principal thesis advisor, Title: “Essays on Inequality, Public Policy, and Banking” (distinguished committee members, Prof. Rajnish Mehra and Prof. Jess Benhabib, New-York University). Placement: European Commission.
· Fabienne Weber, Principal thesis advisor, Title: “Essays on Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing”. Placement: Central Bank of Luxembourg.
· Maksim Nezhelskii, Principal thesis advisor, Provisional title: “Essays on Heterogeneity, Household Finance and Financial Stability”
· Zaruhi Hakobyan, Principal thesis co-advisor (joint Supervision with Higher School of Economics with principal co-advisor Prof. Eren Arbatli), Provisional title: “Essays on Networks, Information Economics, and Dynamic Games of Populism and Conflict”
University of Nottingham
· Yu Zhongjian, Internal examiner, “On the impact of Inequality on Investment and Occupational Choice under Imperfect Capital Markets”
· Sheng-chun Chen, Internal examiner (MPhil), “The trade policy trilemma and external shocks : a cross country analysis”
University of Exeter
· Carolina Achury (MSQE Frankfurt, with full studentship for excellence) Principal Supervisor, external supervisor while in Nottingham
· Sylwia Hubar (Diplom Frankfurt, with full studentship for excellence) Principal Supervisor, external supervisor while in Nottingham, First job: Economic Research Department, Natixis, Paris.
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
University of Luxembourg
· Head of the Department of Finance, February 2023 to date.
· Director of the “Sustainable Finance Track” of the MSc program in Finance and Economics, February 2020 - Feb. 2023.
· Member of the Research Committee for the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance January 2015- Dec. 2017.
· Member of the University Strategic Working Group “Digital Strategy”, January 2015- Dec. 2018.
· Replacing co-Director of PhD program in Economics/Finance, Jan.-August 2015.
University of Nottingham
· Master’s programs recruitment committee, from Sept. 2009 to August 2012 (reviewed thousands of applications and offered detailed feedback in several hundreds of cases), and served in the postgraduate teaching committee from Sept, 2012- August 2012.
University of Cyprus, from 2001 to August 2004
Socrates-Erasmus committee of exchange of undergraduate students, Sept. 2001 - Aug. 2002
Economics Department Library committee, Sept. 2002 - Aug. 2004
Economics Department Information Systems committee, Sept. 2002 - Aug. 2004
Special Senate Information Systems committee, Univ. of Cyprus, Sept. 2002 - Aug. 2004
REFERENCES
Available upon request.