Team

Panos Hatzipanayotou is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) since 1999. He Holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York (S.U.N.Y) Stony Brook. He served as Assistant-Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, USA, 1984-1994, and as Associate and Full Professor at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, 1994-1999.

He has also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus, and Visiting Research Fellow at Deakin University, Melbourne-Australia. He has served as Chairman of the Department of International and European Economic Studies (DIEES) at AUEB, and as an elected Member of the University Council of AUEB, and he is also the Director of Graduate Studies of the DIEES at AUEB. He is Research Fellow of CES-ifo, Munich-Germany, the Institute of Economic Policy Studies (IMOP), Athens Greece, and the Center of Economic and Environmental Research, Greece. He has also served as Member of the Board of Directors of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (ΚΕΠΕ), Athens-Greece. He serves as Referee in numerous Academic Journals, as a Member of Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals, as a Chair and Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committees of National and International Conferences and Workshops.

His research interests include International Factor Mobility; Optimal Commercial Policy under Variable Factor Supplies and Various Forms of Trade Restrictions; Indirect Tax Reforms; Trade and Factor Tax Policies with Public Goods and Public Inputs; Preferential Trading Agreements; Foreign Aid, Environmental Issues in International Trade.

Sarantis Kalyvitis is Professor of Macroeconomics and International Finance at the Department of International European and Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business. He has held a Jean Monnet Chair in European Macroeconomics. His research interests are Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, International Finance, Applied Econometrics. His papers have been published in a number of refereed journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and he is the author of Structural Funds: Growth, Employment and the Environment, Economic Growth: Theory and Policy (in greek), Dynamic International Macroeconomics (in greek). He speaks English, French, German, Spanish, and has published in the press on economic policy.

Margarita Katsimi is Director of Liner and Professor of International Macroeconomic Theory and Policy at the Department of International and European Economic Studies, AUEB, and Research Fellow, CESifo. She holds MSc and PhD in Economics (University of London). Her research focuses on international economics, macroeconomics, trade and political economy. Prior appointments include lectureship in Economics, University of Essex. She has been a Member of the Greek Council of Economic Advisors and the Economic Policy Committee of the EU and an Alternate Member of the Euro Working Group. In 2012-2015 she held a Jean Monnet Chair in Monetary and Fiscal Policy of EU. She has served as the Director in the MSc in International and European Economic Studies of AUEB. She is the author of the textbook “Macroeconomic Policies of the EU” and has published in a number of refereed journals, including Oxford Economic Papers, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Public Choice, Journal of International Money and Finance and Southern Economic Journal.

Thomas  Moutos is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He has been Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Chairman of the Department of International and European Economic Studies, and Director of the Full-Time Graduate Programme in International Economics and Finance and of the Executive MSc Programme in European Studies. He is also a Research Fellow of CESifo (University of Munich). He has taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Stirling, Dresden, Goethe (Frankfurt), and Munich. His main fields of interest are macroeconomics and international economics and has published in many refereed international scientific journals, and published/edited books with Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, and The MIT Press. He has coordinated/participated in several research and consultancy projects for private and public entities, and international organizations.

Panagiotis Konstantinou is  Assistant Professor at the Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business.

His research interests are International Macroeconomics and Finance, with emphasis on empirical applications.