Speaker

Dimitris Georgarakos is Team Lead Economist in the Directorate General Research of the European Central Bank and a Research Fellow at CEPR. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. His research focuses on household finance, monetary policy, and financial stability, combining large-scale household and firm surveys with modern econometric methods and field experiments to examine how inflation, macroeconomic uncertainty, and central bank communication shape expectations and economic behaviour. He leads the questionnaire development for the ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey. His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, and has featured in international media, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The Economist.