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Angelos Theodorakopoulos

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Email: a.theodorakopoulos2[at]aston.ac.uk

Address: Aston Business School

Aston Triangle

Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

Research Interests

International Trade, Industrial Organisation, Applied Microeconomics & Econometrics

Current Position

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics, Aston Business School - Economics Finance, & Entrepreneurship Group

Additional Activities

UKRI Policy Fellow 2023 (18 months ESRC funded £136,579); Scottish Government, Directorate for Chief Economist
Academic Visitor, Bank of England - Research Hub
Research Fellow:
- - Centre for Business Prosperity, Aston Business School (lead on Global Value Chains research theme)
  - Ghent University, Department of Economics

Disclaimer

"I know one thing, that I know nothing" Socrates (c.469-399 BCE), Apology of Socrates (Plato)

Short Bio

Angelos is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at the Department of Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School. He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Patras (Greece), an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (UK), and a PhD in Economics from Ghent University (Belgium) during which he spent a research stay in London School of Economics (UK) and the National Bank of Belgium.

Before joining Aston University as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics, Angelos held research posts at the University of Oxford (UK) and KU Leuven (Belgium) where he was involved in various externally funded research projects and served as a consultant at the World Bank on various projects.

Currently, he is also a UKRI Policy Fellow at the Scottish Government, lead Research Fellow for the Global Value Chains research theme at Aston’s Centre for Business Prosperity, research fellow at the Department of Economics at Ghent University, academic visitor at the Bank of England, and has ongoing projects at the National Bank of Belgium and with the World Bank.

Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

[1] Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities (with R. Freeman, M. Larch & Y. V. Yotov) Forthcoming at the Journal of Applied Econometrics

- Latest Version; Bank of England SWP N° 951; CESifo WP N° 9432
- Featured as VoxEU column & Bank Underground
- Supporting Information

[2] Hötte, K., Theodorakopoulos, A., & Koutroumpis, P. (2024). Automation and Taxation. Oxford Economic Papers, 6, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpae006

- Online Appendix & Supporting Information

[3] Baldwin, R., Freeman, R., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2023). Hidden Exposure: Measuring U.S. Supply Chain Reliance. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall, 79-134.

[4] Baldwin, R., Freeman, R., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2023). Deconstructing Deglobalization: The Future of Trade is in Intermediate Services. Asian Economic Policy Review, 19(1), 18–37. https://doi.org/10.1111/aepr.12440

[5] Bormans, Y., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2023). Productivity Dispersion, Wage Dispersion and Superstar Firms. Economica, 90(360), 1145-1172. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12490

- Online Appendix & Supporting Information

[6] Hötte, K., Somers, M., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2023). Technology and Jobs: A Systematic Literature Review. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 194, 122750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122750

- Online Appendix & Supporting Information
- Featured: VoxEU column; Management Today

[7] Merlevede, B., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2021). Productivity Effects of Internationalisation Through the Domestic Supply Chain. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 36(6), 808–832. https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.2837

- Online Appendix & Supporting Information
- Featured: VoxEU column

Working Papers

[1] Shock Transmission, Global Supply Chains, and Development: Assessing Responses to Trade Shocks (with A. Burman, P. Egger, R. Freeman, J. Maur & N. Rocha) NEW - Revisions requested at Journal of International Economics

- Bank of England SWP N° 1092

[2] Identifying Latent Heterogeneity in Productivity (with R. Dewitte & C. Fuss) Updated version! Under Review

- Latest Version; National Bank of Belgium WP N° 428

[3] Intangibles within Firm Boundaries (with B. Merlevede) Under Revision

- Latest Version; University of Oxford OMPTEC WP N° 2020-6

[4] Horses for Courses: Measuring Foreign Supply Chain Exposure (with R. Baldwin & R.Freeman)

- NBER WP N° 30525; Bank of England SWP N° 996

[5] Compositional Changes in Aggregate Productivity in an Era of Globalization and Financial Crisis (with C. Fuss)

- Latest Version; National Bank of Belgium WP N° 336

Work in Progress

[1] Unequal Migration (with R. Freeman, J. Lewis, J.M.C. Santos Silva, S.Szymanski & S. Tenreyro)

[2] Welfare Gains and Incidence of Technical Change (with R. Dewitte & G. Presidente) In presentation mode

[3] Shocks, links, and disruptions: A unified approach to designing indicators of global supply chain linkages (with R. Baldwin & R. Freeman)

[4] The Margins of Ownership Structures - Insights from 180,000 networks over 25 years (with B. Merlevede) Redrafting

[5] Gravity and Unobserved Trade Costs (with R. Dewitte & R. Freeman)

[6] Regulation, State-Ownership and Firm Performance (with B. De Lange & B. Merlevede)

Policy

Policy Briefs

[1] A portrait of the UK’s global supply chain exposure (with R. Freeman, T. Key, J. Martin, and J. Mulcahy - 2024) - Bank of England, Quarterly Bulletin - 2024

[2] Taxing robots? (with K. Hötte - 2021) - HORIZON 2020 - TECHNEQUALITY Project; Policy Brief N° 4

[3] Is this Time Really Different? Evidence on the Impact of Technological Revolutions (with M. Grigutsch, K. Hötte, P. Koutroumpis, M. Levels, & M. Somers - 2021) - HORIZON 2020 - TECHNEQUALITY Project; Deliverable D6.2

[4] Which governments will be most affected by automation? (with K. Hötte - 2021) - HORIZON 2020 - TECHNEQUALITY Project; Deliverable D5.2

Teaching

2024; 2023, Spring: Lecturer - International Trade (BS3317) - BSc International Business & Economics - Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship - Aston Business School

2018 Fall: Lecturer - Advanced International Trade (LECON2604) - Research Master in Economics - Economics School of Louvain - UCLouvain

2018 Spring: Lecturer - Trade Policy and International Cooperation (LECON2865) - Professional Master in Economics- Economics School of Louvain - UCLouvain & UNamur

PhD Supervision

2023-present: Sham-Una Yakubu Lecturer - Co-supervision (with Jun Du and Oleksandr Shepotylo); Aston Business School & Center for Business Prosperity

2021: Dinara Alpysbayeva - External Thesis Examiner; KU Leuven

Grants

Nov 2023-May 2025: UKRI Policy Fellowship 2023 (ESRC £136,579) - Scottish Government, Promoting Economic Prosperity and Improving Outcomes Economics Fellowship

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