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Stelios MICHALOPOULOS, Brown University

Stelios Michalopoulos is a Professor of economics at Brown University, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Affiliate of the CEPR. He has held positions at Tufts University and spent visiting periods at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, INSEAD, and the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. Stelios is the recipient of the 2015 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the recipient of the 2019 Bodossaki Prize in the field of Social Sciences a biennial award bestowed to scientists of Greek origin up to 40 years of age. His work has been funded by the NSF and DFIF among others. He is on the editorial board of the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Comparative Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

His primary research interests lie in the intersection of political economy, culture, growth, and comparative development. He has published in leading peer-reviewed economic journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Stelios obtained his Ph.D. in economics in 2008 from Brown University.

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