Evangelos Dioikitopoulos

Qualifications

• PhD Economics (Athens University of Economics and Business, AUEB)
• MReS Economics (European University Institute)
• MSc International Economics and Finance (AUEB)
• BSc Economics (Aristotle University)

Personal Biography

I completed my PhD in 2009. In June 2010 I joined Brunel University London after visiting the University of Cyprus. In 2012 I was invited as a visiting research scholar in Brown University. I currently work in Unified Growth Theory.

Research Overview

My early research focuses on growth theory and fiscal policy. In particular, I explored alternative growth policies in population aging societies; I explored the fiscal policy implications of the hypothesis of endogenous subjective discounting on economic growth, environmental quality, and obesity rates. My current research focuses on how the emergence of land property rights and the duality in subsistence consumption during the Malthusian era affected the transition of economies to industrialization and their contemporary economic performance.

Member, Brunel Macroeconomics Research Centre (BMRC)

Current Projects

Land property rights and divergence in the Malthusian world project with Ken Tabata

Duality in subsistence consumption: the transition from stagnation to modern growth and the reversal of fortunes

Environment, intertemporal substitution and fiscal policy indeterminacy

Demographics and government spending dynamics

A new method of solving the Ramsey taxation in continuous time endogenous growth models

Recently Completed Projects

Aging, growth and the allocation of public expenditures on health and education

Green spending reforms, growth and welfare with endogenous subjective discounting

Optimal fiscal policy with endogenous time preference

A growth model of choice: taxation, weight preferences and obesity rates

Undergraduate Programmes

Module convenor

• Mathematical Economics (second year)

Module convenor

• The Economics of Labour Markets (third year)

• Convenor of MSc Dissertations
• Reference-Supporting Tutor