Theodore Georgakopoulos
Education
Athens School of Economics and Business, B.A. Economics, 1964.
University of York, England, D.Phil. in Economics, 1971.
Present Positions
Jean Monnet Professor of Economics, Department of International and
European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business
(formerly Athens School of Economics and Business) 1990-
Teaching Posts in Greece
Professor of Economics (chair Public Finance), (1973-1989), Department
of Economics,
Athens School of Economics and Business.
Lecturer in Economics, (1971-1973) and Teaching Assistant (1966-1967),
Athens School of Economics and Business.
Visiting Scholar
London School of Economics and Political Sciences, Fall 1979 and 1996.
Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Spring 1980.
University of York, Winter 1979, Summer 1980, Spring and Summer 1990.
University of Essex, Summer 1989.
European University Institute, in Florence, (short visit, Summer 1991).
University of Cyprus, Fall 1994 and 1998.
Administrative Duties:
Member of the University Senate (1976-78).
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics (1977-1982).
Vice-Rector (1979-80) and Rector (1980-81) of the Athens School of Economics
and Business.
Chairman, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens
University of Economics and Business
(1989-1993, 1995-1996 and 1998-2000).
Selected Publications
He has widely published in the fields of Public Finance and Economic Integration.
His publication record includes more than 50 works in international and
Greek Journals, 40 works in collective volumes, in Greek and in English,
14 monographs, 12 textbooks and a large number of Discussion Papers and
Reports for International Organisations. Works of his have appeared in
a number of international journals, including: the Economic Journal, the
Journal of Public Economics, the European Economic Review, Public Finance,
Public Finance Quarterly, the European Review of Agricultural Economics,
the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Greek
Economic Review, Applied Economics, etc.
A representative list of his publications includes the following:
"A short-run assessment of the effects of the VAT on consumption
patterns: The Greek experience", Applied Economics 1993 (with A.Andrikopoulos
and J.A. Brox).
"Trade deflection, trade distortions and Pareto inefficiencies under
the restricted origin principle", Journal of Public Economics, Vol.
47,1992.
"On the superiority of the destination over the origin principle
of taxation for intra-union trade, Economic Journal, Vol. 102, 1992,(
with T. Hitiris).
"Excess burden and substitutability: A general equilibrium presentation",
Public Finance, 1992.
"Some economic effects of value added tax substitution in Greece:
A first ex-post assessment", Greek Economic Review, 1991.
"The equivalence of the destination and the restricted origin principles
of taxation in the case of non-general taxes", Osaka Economic
Papers, March 1991, reprinted in Ali M. El-Agraa, Public and International
Economics, McMillan Press, 1993 (with Dr.T. Hitiris).
"The impact of accession on food prices, inflation and food consumption
in Greece", European Review of Agricultural Economics, December 1990.
"Harmonisation of Commodity Taxes: The restricted origin principle-comment"
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 39, 1989.
"The impact of the CAP on agricultural incomes in Greece", European
Review of Agricultural Economics , Vol.15, 1988.
"Greece in the EC: Inter-country income transfers", Journal
of Common Market Studies, 1986.
"Stabilisation aspects of tax substitution: The value-added tax in
the U.K., Public Finance, No.3 1975.
"Tax rebating of exports and the balance of payments", European
Economic Review, No.5 1974.
"Trade creation and trade diversion in tax unions and customs unions",
Public Finance Quarterly, October 1974.
"The excess burden controversy in a trading world: A case for special
indirect taxes", Public Finance, No.2 1974.
Value-added tax and the internal market in the EU: comparison of the transitional
and the definitive VAT system,
in C. Paraskevopoulos (editor), European Union at the Crossroads, Edward
Elgar, 1998
"Fiscal policy", in P. Kazakos and P. Ioakimidis, Greece and
EC Membership Evaluated, Pinder Publishers, 1994.
"Economic integration and unequal development: The experience of
Greece, in T. Georgakopoulos and C. Paraskevopopulos (ed.),
Economic Integration Between Unequal Partners, Edward Elgar, 1994.
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