Research Interests

Macroeconomics, Real Estate Markets, Time Series Modeling, Credit Frictions, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modelling

Employment

Teaching Associate Nov 2020 -
Lancaster University Lancaster, UK

Research Assistant, UK Housing Observatory Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Lancaster University Lancaster, UK

Graduate Teaching Assistant Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
Lancaster University Lancaster, UK

Education

Ph.D. Economics Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
Lancaster University Lancaster, UK

M.Sc. Economics Sept 2014 - March 2016
University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece

B.Sc. Economics Sept 2009 - Aug 2014
University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece

Research

Publications

  • Pavlidis E., Vasilopoulos K. (2020). Speculative Bubbles in Segmented Markets: Evidence from Chinese Cross-Listed Stocks. Journal of International Money and Finance .

Submitted

  • Vasilopoulos K., Pavlidis E., Martínez-García E.(2020). exuber: Recursive Right-Tailed Unit Root Testing with R. Dallas Fed Working Paper.

  • Vasilopoulos K., Tayler W. (2020). Real Estate and Construction Sector Dynamics in the Business Cycle. Working Paper

Work in Progress

  • Pavlidis E., Vasilopoulos K. (2020). Sentimental Housing Markets.

  • Vasilopoulos K. (2020). Real Estate and Monetary Policy: Residential and Commercial.

  • Skouralis A., Vasilopoulos K. (2020). Asymmetries Effects of Housing Demand Shocks.

Projects & Research Groups

  • UK Housing Observatory - Lancaster University
    Website: uk.housing-observatory.com

  • International Housing Observatory - Lancaster University and the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
    Website : int.housing-observatory.com

Teaching

Teaching Associate:

  • Econ223: Intermediate Macroeconomics II (UG), Spring, 2021

  • Econ 324: Advanced Macroeconomics (UG), Spring 2021

  • Econ 400: Macroeconomics for Money, Banking and Finance (UG), Fall 2020

  • Econ 101: Principles of Economics A (UG), 2020-2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

  • Econ222: Intermediate Macroeconomics (UG), Fall 2018, Fall 2019

  • Econ102: Principles of Economics B (UG), 2016-2017, 2017-2018

Technical Publications

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Departmental Studentship Award, Lancaster University, 2016–2019

  • Scholarship awarded based on academic excellence, University of Macedonia

Conference Presentations

  • Lancaster PhD Summer School on Applied Macroeconometrics, Lancaster, September, 2019
  • 3rd Annual International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (ICMAIF 2019), Rethymno, May, 2019
  • North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership, Lancaster University, Lancaster, May, 2019
  • 5th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, April 2019
  • The 12th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics, University of Pisa, Pisa, December 2018
  • 4th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, April, 2018
  • North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership, The University of Manchester, Manchester, May, 2018
  • 3rd International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, April, 2017

Teaching Courses

  • Graduate Teaching Assistants Workshop, University of Nottingham, Oct 2016

  • Introduction to Teaching at Lancaster (ITL), Lancaster University, Oct 2016

Summer Schools, Workshops and Training

  • Summer School - Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics, 29th – 30th June 2020, Lancaster University, UK. [link]

  • Summer School - Applied Macroeconometrics, 25th – 27th September 2019, Lancaster University, UK. [link]

  • Summer School - Advanced Courses on DSGE Macroeconomic Modelling, 4-8 Sept 2017, University of Surrey, UK. [link]

  • 4th Short Course: Dynamic Programming – Theory, Computation and Empirical Applications July 04-08, 2016 Thessaloniki, Greece. [link]

IT Literacy

Advanced knowledge: R, Matlab

Intermediate Knowledge: Python, C++, Git, Latex

Basic knowledge: HTML/CSS

References

Efthymios Pavlidis
Professor in Economics
Lancaster University
E-mail: e.pavlidis@lancaster.ac.uk
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/etpavlidis/

William Tayler
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics
Lancaster University
E-mail: w.tayler@lancaster.ac.uk
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/williamjtayler/

Ivan Paya
Professor in Economics
Lancaster University
E-mail: i.paya@lancaster.ac.uk
URL: https://ivanpaya.weebly.com/