Welcome to my personal Website! Here you can find information about my research and my professional activities.
In short: I am Deputy Head of ZEW's (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) Inequality and Public Policy group. I am also affiliated with the University of Mannheim as a member of the Bonn-Mannheim Collaborative Research Center TR 224 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I am a research fellow at CEPR (Labour Economics and Macroeconomics and Growth programmes), IZA@LISER, CESifo and GLO, member of the Vfs Standing Field Committee on Macroeconomics and a visiting researcher at the Research Center of the Bundesbank. I was a member of the Greek National Minimum Wage Experts Committee from 2022-2025. Previously, I was a (tenured) economist at the Bank of Italy, a visiting economist at the Research Center of the Bundesbank, and an external lecturer at the European Business School.
I received my PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid under the supervision of Nezih Guner.
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📢Upcoming workshop: On October 13, 2026, together with Miren Azkarate, I am organizing the CRC TR 224 Workshop on Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining at ZEW. Check out the Program
Upcoming presentations:
November 9, 2026 Seminar, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
December 16-18, 2026 Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, Gran Canaria
Contact Information:
Research Group Inequality and Public Policy
ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim
L 7, 1 - Room 316
68161 Mannheim, GERMANY
Tel. +49(0)621 1235 296
Email: adefi81(at)yahoo.gr
adamopoulou(at)uni-mannheim.de
effrosyni.adamopoulou(at)zew.de
Research interests: Labor Economics, Family Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics.
Watch a short video about my research (Eating Habits, Food Consumption and Health: The Role of Early Life Experiences)
Watch my webinar at CReAM (WP The Long Run Earnings Effects of a Credit Market Disruption)
Watch my presentation at Universidad Torcuato di Tella (WP Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions) and the discussion by M. Beraja.
My interview in Augsburger Allgemeine: What can Germany learn from Greece? (in German), English translation.