Research

Macroeconomics, growth and public policy, with a focus on the behavioural and cultural forces behind inequality, demographics and the environment.

Current research grants

2026

AI and Labour Market in Greece

2023 – 2025

Behavioural-Based Socioeconomic Policies

Principal Investigator · €140,000 · Funding body: HFRI

2023 – 2025

“Greening of Taxes”

With the European Commission, Ministry of Finance and EY

  1. 2025Forthcoming

    Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition towards Sustained Growth

    International Economic Review · with D. Varvarigos (University of Leicester)

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  2. 2024

    Sustainability Traps: Patience and Innovation

    Environmental and Resource Economics · with C. Karydas (ETH Zurich)

    Press: Το Βήμα της Κυριακής · ΟΠΑ News
  3. 2023

    Population Diversity and Financial Risk-Taking

    Journal of Banking and Finance · with M. Delis (Audencia Business School) and S. Ongena (University of Zurich)

  4. 2023

    Delay in Childbearing and the Evolution of Fertility Rates

    Journal of Population Economics · with D. Varvarigos (University of Leicester)

  5. 2020

    Dynamic Status Effects, Savings and Income Inequality

    International Economic Review · with S. Turnovsky (University of Washington) and R. Wendner (University of Graz)

  6. 2020

    The (Agri-)Cultural Origins of Obesity

    Social Science and Medicine · with S. Vandoros (Harvard University and University College London) and D. Minos (King’s College London)

  7. 2020

    Roads to Prosperity without Environmental Poverty: The Role of Impatience and Fiscal Policy

    Economics Letters · with S. Ghosh (Brunel University), C. Karydas (ETH Zurich) and E. Vella (University of Sheffield)

  8. 2018

    Dynamic Adjustment of Fiscal Policy under a Debt Crisis

    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · single-authored

    Companion appendix
  9. 2018

    Public Policy, Dynamic Status Preferences, and Wealth Inequality

    Journal of Public Economic Theory · with S. Turnovsky (University of Washington) and R. Wendner (University of Graz)

  10. 2015
  11. 2015

    Green Spending Reforms, Growth and Welfare with Endogenous Subjective Discounting

    Macroeconomic Dynamics · with E. Vella and S. Kalyvitis (AUEB)

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  12. 2015

    Optimal Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Time Preference

    Journal of Public Economic Theory · with S. Kalyvitis (AUEB)

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  13. 2010

    Endogenous Time Preference and Public Policy: Growth and Fiscal Implications

    Macroeconomic Dynamics · with S. Kalyvitis (AUEB)

  14. 2008

    Public Capital Maintenance and Congestion: Long-Run Growth and Fiscal Policies

    Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control · with S. Kalyvitis (AUEB)

  1. Submitted

    Beyond the Facts: Familiarity, Credibility, and Persuasion

    with Rigissa Megalokonomou, Tommaso Sartori and Yves Zenou (Monash University)

  2. Submitted

    AI and Labour Market in Greece

    with Marily Mexi (Graduate Institute, Geneva), Konstantinos Pouliakas (CEDEFOP), Stelios Rousalis (Princeton University) and C. Sintou (Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Greece and AUEB)

  3. Submitted

    Nudges and the Malleability of Identity: Evidence from Religiosity

    with Rigissa Megalokonomou and Tommaso Sartori (Monash University)

  4. R&R

    Does Monetary Policy Transparency Aid Technological Knowledge?

    International Journal of Finance & Economics · with A. Bechlioulis, C. Economidou and A. Karadimitropoulou

  5. On request

    “Keeping Up with the Influencers”: Lifestyle Aspirations, Labour Supply, and Economic Growth

    with D. Varvarigos

  6. On request

    The Elimination of Common Rights and Comparative Economic Development in a Malthusian World

    with Ken Tabata (Kwansei Gakuin University) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford University)

  7. Working paper

    Suspicion and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

    with Ichiro Kawachi (Harvard University) and S. Vandoros (Harvard University and University College London)

  8. On request

    Structural Transformation and the Obesity Epidemic: Growth and Taxation

  • Your Sins are not Forgiven: The Role of Religion in Supreme Court Trial Outcomes

    with Rigissa Megalokonomou (Monash University)

  • Culture over Time and Space

    with S. Rousalis (Princeton University)

  • The Pursuit of Happiness: Status and Aspirations

    single-authored

  • On the Joint Relation among Demographic Changes, the Housing Crisis, AI and Innovation: Firms and the Labour Market

    Policy project

  • Climate Change and Firm Profitability across Greek Firms

    Policy project

  • Aspirations and Comparative Economic Development

     

  • Time to Experience

    Broader research project

  • Duality in Subsistence Consumption, the Transition from Stagnation to Modern Growth and the Reversal of Fortunes

     

  • A New Method of Solving the Ramsey Taxation in Continuous Time Endogenous Growth Models

     

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