Michael Haliassos
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Michael Haliassos Professor E-mail: haliassos(AT)wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de Phone: +49 69 798 33812
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Biographical Information
Haliassos holds the Chair in Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is currently Director of the Center for Financial Studies, Deputy Dean for International Relations, and Director of the Master's Program in Money and Finance. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in Financial Economics, Research Professor at the Mannheim Research Institute on the Economics of Aging (MEA), and International Research Fellow of NETSPAR.
Haliassos received a B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt in 2004, he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland , and then at the University of Cyprus, where he also served as Deputy Dean of the School of Economics and Business. He has held visiting appointments inter alia at the European University Institute in the Chair of Finance and Consumption, and at the Center of Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF). He has recently served as advisor to the European Central Bank on the construction of a Eurozone Survey of Household Finances and Consumption.
His research interests lie in Macroeconomics and Finance with emphasis on household finance. He has studied household portfolio choice under labor income risk, stockholding behavior, consumer debt, portfolios of aging households internationally, the distribution of wealth, the impact of credit market imperfections, and the role of financial advice. His papers have appeared in major international journals, including the International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Review of Finance, and Economic Policy; and in edited volumes, including the Handbook of Monetary Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Finance.
Haliassos has coordinated a number of international research projects. Together with L. Guiso and T. Jappelli, they have coordinated a major international research project on “Household Portfolios”, with results published by MIT Press in early 2002. Guiso, Haliassos, and Jappelli also coordinated a project on “Stockholding: A European comparison” with participants from five EU countries and results published in a 2002 volume by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers. He has coordinated a University of Cyprus-Central Bank of Cyprus project that constructed the first (1999) and the second (2002) Cyprus Surveys of Consumer Finances, now included in the Luxembourg Wealth Study international database.