Current Positions
- Professor, University of Surrey, 2025-
- President, Karl Brunner Institute 2020-
- Research Fellow, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, 2013-
- Advisor, Study Center Gerzensee, 2025-
- Professor Emeritus , University of Bern, 1998-2025
- Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
- Co-Editor, Open Economies Review
- Associate Editor, Journal of Money Credit and Banking
- Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2014- , Bank of Greece, 2016-
Education
- Ph.D. (1985) University of Rochester
- B.A. (1980) Athens School of Economics and Business (Greece)
Some recent publications:
- Public debt as private liquidity: Optimal policy, (with George-Marios Angeletos and Fabrice Collard), Journal of Political Economy, November 2023, 131(11), 3233-3264.
- Business cycle anatomy, (with George-Marios Angeletos and Fabrice Collard), American Economic Review, October 2020, 110(10), 3030-70.
- Quantifying Confidence, with George-Marios Angeletos and Fabrice Collard, Econometrica, September 2018, 86(5), 1689–1726.
- Optimal monetary and prudential policies, (with Fabrice Collard, Behzad Diba, and Olivier Loisel), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2017, 9 (1), 40-87.
- Fiscal multipliers in recessions, (with Matt Canzoneri, Fabrice Collard and Behzad Diba), Economic Journal, February 2016, 125(590), 75-108.