Loukas Karabarbounis
1925 Fourth Street South
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Loukas Karabarbounis is the Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and a Consultant and Senior Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He serves as Coordinating Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and Associate Editor at the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He held positions as Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He teaches macroeconomics, labor economics, and international finance.
His research focuses on topics such as the global decline in labor's share of income; productivity, capital flows, and depressions in southern Europe; inequality; the allocation of time; cyclicality and trends in labor markets; unemployment insurance policy; minimum wages. He is the recipient of the 2019 Bernacer Prize awarded to the best European economist under 40 in macroeconomics and finance, a Sloan Research Fellowship awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, an Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs awarded by the Kiel Institute, and a Distinguished Young Scientist Award for Social Sciences awarded by the Bodossaki Foundation. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece.
Educational Background
- B.A.: Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2003
- M.Sc.: Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2005
- A.M.: Economics, Harvard University, 2008
- Ph.D.: Economics, Harvard University, 2010
Specialties
- macroeconomics
- labor economics
- international finance