George-Marios Angeletos ( el, Γεώργιος-Μάριος Αγγελέτος; born in 1975,

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) is a Greek economist who is a Professor of

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. He was previously a Professor of Economics at the

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(MIT).

Early life and education

Angeletos was born in

. He earned his

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degree in Economics from

Athens University of Economics and Business Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB; el, Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Oikonomiko Panepistimio Athinon'', abbrev. ΟΠΑ, OPA) was founded in 1920 in Athens, Greece and is the oldest university in Gre ...

in 1996, and received his M.Sc. in Economics in 1997 from the same university. Angeletos earned his

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in Economics in 2001 from Harvard. Angeletos received a scholarship from the

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to complete his doctorate.

Academic career

After graduating from Harvard, Angeletos became a member of the MIT faculty, and was awarded tenure there in 2007. In 2006, Angeletos received a

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, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Shortly after receiving tenure, Angeletos won the Bodossaki Foundation Prize in Social Sciences for distinguished young Greek scientists in 2008. During 2013-14, Angeletos held the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at the

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Contributions to economics

Angeletos has published many articles in the field of macroeconomics. In particular, much of his research has investigated the impact of informational frictions in macro settings. He has made many notable contributions to the field of

global games In economics and game theory, global games are games of incomplete information where players receive possibly-correlated signals of the underlying state of the world. Global games were originally defined by Carlsson and van Damme (1993). The mo ...

, which followed the work of Stephen Morris and Hung Song Shin. More recently, his work has focused on the roles of expectations, information, and bounded rationality in the

business cycle Business cycles are intervals of expansion followed by recession in economic activity. These changes have implications for the welfare of the broad population as well as for private institutions. Typically business cycles are measured by examin ...

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References

Sources

* George-Marios Angeletos, Christian Hellwig, and Alessandro Pavan (2006), "Signaling in a Global Game: Coordination and Policy Traps," '' Journal of Political Economy'', 114 (3), 452-484. * George-Marios Angeletos, Christian Hellwig, and Alessandro Pavan (2007), "Dynamic Global Games of Regime Change: Learning, Multiplicity and Timing of Attacks," ''

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'', 75 (3), 711-756. * George-Marios Angeletos and Ivan Werning (2006), "Crises and Prices: Information Aggregation, Multiplicity, and Volatility," American Economic Review, 96 (5), 1720–36. * George-Marios Angeletos and Alessandro Pavan (2007), "Efficient Use of Information and Social Value of Information,"

, 75 (4). * Stephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin (1998), "Unique Equilibrium in a Model of Self-Fulfilling Currency Attacks," American Economic Review, 88 (3), 587–97.

External links

webpage at MIT

NBER working papers by Angeletos
{{DEFAULTSORT:Angeletos, George-Marios 1975 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Zurich MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 21st-century Greek economists Macroeconomists Greek emigrants to the United States Writers from Athens Athens University of Economics and Business alumni Fellows of the Econometric Society Fellows of the European Economic Association