Current Research Grants

2023-2025 Principal Investigator: Behavioural-Based Socioeconomic Policies, €140.000, funding body: HFRI.

2023-2025 “Greening of Taxes” with European Commission, Ministry of Finance and EY.

Publications

“Material Aspirations, Cultural Change, and the Transition towards Sustained Growth” , forthcoming, International Economic Review, with D. Varvarigos (University of Leicester) Part of my TEDx Talk has been based on that paper.

“Sustainability Traps: Patience and Innovation” Environmental and Resource Economics, (2024) , with C. Karydas (ETH – Zurich). Summary in the Greek public press Το Βήμα της Κυριακής, ΟΠΑ NEWS

“Population Diversity and Financial Risk-Taking“, Journal of Banking and Finance, (2023) with M. Delis (Audencia Business School) and S. Ongena (University of Zurich).

“Delay in Childbearing and the Evolution of Fertility Rates“, Journal of Population Economics, (2023),with D. Varvarigos (University of Leicester).

“Dynamic Status Effects, Savings and Income Inequality“, International Economic Review, (2020), with S. Turnovsky (University of Washington) and R. Wendner (University of Graz).

The (Agri-)Cultural Origins of Obesity, with S. Vandoros (Harvard University and University College London) and D. Minos (King’s College London), 2020, Social Science and Medicine.

“Roads to Prosperity without Environmental Poverty: The Role of Impatience and Fiscal Policy”, Economics Letters, (2020), with S. Ghosh (Brunel University), C. Karydas (ETH – Zurich) and E. Vella (University of Sheffield).

“Dynamic Adjustment of Fiscal Policy under a Debt Crisis“, single authored,  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (2018). (link to Companion Appendix)

“Public Policy, Dynamic Status Preferences, and Wealth Inequality“, Journal of Public Economic Theory, (2018) with S. Turnovsky (University of Washington) and R. Wendner (University of Graz). 

“Aging, Growth and the Allocation of Public Expenditures on Health and Education“, single authored, (2015), Canadian Journal of Economics. Summary on Greek public press Καθημερινή

“Green Spending Reforms, Growth and Welfare with Endogenous Subjective Discounting“, Macroeconomic Dynamics, (2015), with E. Vella and S. Kalyvitis (AUEB).

“Optimal Fiscal Policy with Endogenous Time Preference“, Journal of Public Economic Theory, (2015), with S. Kalyvitis (AUEB).

“Endogenous Time Preference and Public Policy:  Growth and Fiscal Implications“ , Macroeconomic Dynamics, (2010), with S.Kalyvitis (AUEB).

“Public Capital Maintenance and Congestion: Long-Run Growth and Fiscal Policies” , Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (2008), with S.Kalyvitis (AUEB).

Completed Working Papers

“Nudges and the Malleability of Identity: Evidence from Religiosity” with Rigissa Megalokonomou (Monash University) and Tommaso Sartori (Monash University)

“Keeping Up with the Influencers”: Lifestyle Aspirations, Labour Supply, and Economic Growth”, with D. Varvarigos (available upon request)

“The Elimination of Common Rights and Comparative Economic Development in a Malthusian World”, with Ken Tabata (Kwansei University) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford University), (available upon request).

Does Monetary Policy Transparency Aid Technological Knowledge? with A. Bechlioulis, C. Economidou and A. Karadimitropoulou.

“Suspicion and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy”, with Ichiro Kawachi (Harvard University) and S. Vandoros (Harvard University and University College London).

“Structural Transformation and the Obesity Epidemic: Growth and Taxation”, (available upon request).

Work in progress

“Your Sins are not Forgiven: The Role of Religion in Supreme Court Trial Outcomes” with Rigissa Megalokonomou (Monash University)

“The Pursuit of Happiness: Status and Aspirations” single authoured.

“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”.