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Senior Lecturer in Economics

brief biography

Chris Tsoukis is a specialist in macroeconomics, with emphasis on social and behavioural macroeconomics, fiscal policy, growth, current accounts and global capital mobility, and housing markets. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of London. Chris has previously been a member of staff at the Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, and the University of Hull, UK.

Chris is an active researcher, with participation in leading international conferences and a publication record in renowned international journals including: Oxford Economic Papers, Economics Letters, the Scottish Journal of Political Economy, the World Economy, Applied Economics, and the Journal of Economic Integration. He has co-edited 'Aspects of Globalisation: Macroeconomic and Capital Market Linkages in the Integrated World Economy'(2003).

Personal webpage: www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/~tsoukis/

key teaching areas

• Macroeconomics
• International Economics
• European Economics

research interests

Chris is a specialist in macroeconomics, with main research interests in social and behavioural macroeconomics, fiscal policy, growth, current accounts and global capital mobility, and housing markets.

publications

Selected Journal Articles:

• Current Accounts In The Long Run And The Intertemporal Approach: A Panel Data Investigation, (jointly with Mario Cerrato, Huseyin Kalyoncu, and Naveed Naqvi), forthcoming The World Economy.
• Status Jobs, Human Capital and Growth: The effects of heterogeneity (with Frederic Tournemaine) - Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 61, Number 3, July 2009, pp. 467-493.
• Relative Consumption, relative wealth, and growth (with Frederic Tournemaine) - Economics Letters, 100, 2 (August 2008), pp. 314-316.
• Learning, scale effects, and (very) long-run growth (with Nigel Miller), Economic Modelling, 25 (3), May 2008, pp 446-462.
• Keeping up with the Joneses, Growth, and Distribution, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54 (4), September 2007, pps. 575 - 600.
• Price Rigidities, Inventories and Growth Fluctuations (with Naveed Naqvi), Managerial and Decision Economics, 28 (6), September 2007 (special issue on Price Rigidities, guest-edited by Daniel Levy), pps. 619-631.

Edited Volume:

• Aspects of Globalisation: Macroeconomic and Capital Market Linkages in the Integrated World Economy, Chris Tsoukis, George Agiomirgianakis, and Tapan Biswas (eds), 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers

   

memberships

• Member of the Scientific Committee for the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS) Annual Conference 2008, Prague, May 2008;
• Member of the Editorial Board for the Middle East Journal of Economics and Finance.