Michael Haliassos

Dr. Michael Haliassos holds the Chair for Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is Founding Director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and of NETSPAR. He has been advisor to the European Central Bank on the Household Finances and Consumption Survey since its inception in 2006; and consultant to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Investor Protection (2015-17). He has been Director of the Center for Financial Studies (1.2010-12.2015) and Founding Director of SAFE, a multi-million center of excellence (2013-15). Dr. Haliassos received a B.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1987 under the supervision of Nobel Laureate James Tobin.

He was faculty at the Universities of Maryland and Cyprus, and part time Professor at the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on Household Finance, where he has been among the early contributors. He has co-edited the standard reference in the field (Household Portfolios, MIT Press, 2001), and edited a three-volume collection of critical writings (Edward Elgar, 2015). His papers have appeared in major international journals and edited volumes, including the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the International Economic Review, the Review of Finance, and the Economic Journal. He edited an MIT Press volume on Financial Innovation: Too Much or Too Little? in 2013, and he co-edited a CUP volume on Financial Regulation: A Transatlantic Perspective in 2015 and an MIT Press volume on Capital Markets Union and Beyond in 2018. He has contributed to policy analysis and advice: he was member of the Panel of the journal Economic Policy (2011-13) and member of the National Council on Research and Technology for Greece.