Angelos Theodorakopoulos
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Email: a.theodorakopoulos2[at]aston.ac.uk
Address: Aston Business School
Aston Street
Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Research Interests
International Trade, Empirical IO, Productivity, Technological Change, Intangibles, Applied Microeconomics & Econometrics
Current Position
Lecturer (Assistant 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
Ghent University, Department of Economics
KU Leuven, VIVES
Disclaimer
"I know one thing, that I know nothing" Socrates (c.469-399 BCE), Apology of Socrates (Plato)
Short Bio
Angelos is an Assistant 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, 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 a UKRI Policy Fellow at the Scottish Government, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Prosperity, an academic visitor at the Bank of England, and has ongoing projects at the National Bank of Belgium.
Research
Peer Reviewed Publications
[1] Hötte, K., Theodorakopoulos, A., & Koutroumpis, P. (2024). Automation and Taxation. Oxford Economic Papers, 6, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpae006
[2] Baldwin, R., Freeman, R., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (Forthcoming). Hidden Exposure: Measuring U.S. Supply Chain Reliance. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
[3] 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
[4] Bormans, Y., & Theodorakopoulos, A. (2023). Productivity Dispersion, Wage Dispersion and Superstar Firms. Economica, 90(360), 1145–1172. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12490
[5] 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
[6] 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
Working Papers
[1] Intangibles within Firm Boundaries (with B. Merlevede) Under Revision
[2] Identifying Latent Heterogeneity in Productivity (with R. Dewitte & C. Fuss) Under Review
[3] Horses for Courses: Measuring Foreign Supply Chain Exposure (with R. Baldwin & R.Freeman)
[4] Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities (with R. Freeman, M. Larch & Y. V. Yotov) Revisions requested
[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 Revisions requested
Work in Progress
[1] Technology, Prices and Market Power (with R. Dewitte & G. Presidente) In presentation mode
[2] The Margins of Ownership Structures - Insights from 180,000 networks over 25 years (with B. Merlevede) Redrafting
[3] Regulation, State-Ownership and Firm Performance (with B. De Lange & B. Merlevede)
[4] Shock Transmission, Global Supply Chains, and Development: Assessing Responses to Trade Shocks (with A. Burman, P. Egger, R. Freeman, J. Maur & N. Rocha)
[5] Gravity and Unobserved Trade Costs (with R. Dewitte & R. Freeman)
Policy
Policy Briefs
[1] Taxing robots? (with K. Hötte - 2021) - HORIZON 2020 - TECHNEQUALITY Project; Policy Brief N° 4
[2] 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
[3] Which governments will be most affected by automation? (with K. Hötte - 2021) - HORIZON 2020 - TECHNEQUALITY Project; Deliverable D5.2
Teaching
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