Vassilis is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the LSE European Institute. He is also affiliated to LSE's Hellenic Observatory, the Department of Geography and Environment and the ESRC Spatial Economics Research Centre. He is Director of the LSE Research Unit on Southeast Europe (LSEE), Co-editor of Spatial Economic Analysis (Taylor & Francis), Committee Member of the British and Irish Section of the Regional science Association International and member of various professional associations and editorial boards.
An economist and economic geographer by training, Vassilis holds a PhD in Economic Geography (2002, London School of Economics, UK) an MSc in Economics (1996, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) and a BSc in Economics (1994, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece). His research spans across three disciplinary areas, namely Economics, Geography and Political Economy. His main research interests are on regional and national labour markets; regional and local socio-economic disparities; labour market flexibility and labour relations; macroeconomic policy; and the political economy of reform. He has expertise in panel-data econometrics, spatial econometrics, micro-econometrics and applied Geographical Information Systems analysis.
He has published in a range of economics and regional science journals (Journal of Regional Science, Regional Studies, Urban Studies, Spatial Economic Analysis, the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Oxford Economics Papers, Empirical Economics, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the Review of Development Economics, and others) and received various distinctions including the Moss Maden Medal in Regional Science (2008) and a European Investment Bank Award (2001).
He has worked in various projects for the European Commission (DG Regio, DG Enlargement) and the UK Government (ODPM, BERR) and has attracted funding from numerous funding bodies, including the Economic and Social Research Council, the Royal Geographical Society, and the European Commission.
Selected recent publications:
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Monastiriotis V. (2015), The End of Austerity?, Intereconomics Journal, vol.50 (1), pp.1-2.
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Christopoulou R. and Monastiriotis V. (2015), Public-private wage duality during the Greek crisis, Oxford Economic Papers [DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpv054]
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Monastiriotis V., Kallioras D. and Petrakos G. (2014), The regional impact of EU association agreements: lessons for the ENP from the CEE experience, LEQS Paper No80/2014, LSE.
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Monastiriotis V. and Martelli A. (2014), Labour market informality and non-standard employment in Serbia during the global financial crisis, Südosteuropa, vol.62 (4), pp.421-439.
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Monastiriotis V. (2014), Convergence through crisis? The impact of the crisis on wage returns across the Greek regions, Region et Developpement, No39, pp.35-66.
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Monastiriotis V. and Psycharis Y. (2014), Between equity, efficiency and redistribution: An analysis of revealed allocation criteria of regional public investment in Greece, European Urban and Regional Studies, vol.21 (4), pp.445-462. [first published online 09/12 – DOI: 10.1177/0969776412455990].
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Christopoulou R. and Monastiriotis V. (2014), The Greek public sector wage premium before the crisis: size, selection and relative valuation of characteristics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.52 (3), pp.579-602 [first published online 09/13 – DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12023].
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Monastiriotis V. (2014), (When) Does Austerity Work? On the Conditional Link between Fiscal Austerity and Debt Sustainability, Cyprus Economic Policy Review, vol.8 (1), pp.71-92.
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Monastiriotis V. (2014), Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the east and the west, Spatial Economic Analysis, vol.9 (2), pp.142-161.
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Monastiriotis V. (2014), Origin of FDI and domestic productivity spillovers: does European FDI have a ‘productivity advantage’ in the ENP countries?, LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series, LEQS Paper No70/2014, LSE.
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Monastiriotis V. and Martelli A. (2013), Beyond Rising Unemployment: Unemployment Risk Crisis and Regional Adjustments in Greece, GreeSE Paper No80, Hellenic Observatory, LSE.
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Monastiriotis V. (2013), Regional Growth in Central and Eastern Europe: convergence, divergence and non-linear dynamics, in Crescenzi R. and Percoco M. (eds), Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance, Advances in Spatial Science series, Springer (pp.77-94).
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Monastiriotis V. (2013), The Nature of Spatial Inequalities in SEE and the Scope for Decentralised Regional Policy: an Analysis of Bulgaria and Serbia, in Bartlett, W., Maleković Sanja, Monastiriotis, V. (eds.), Decentralization and Development in Southeast Europe, Palgrave Macmillan
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Bartlett W., Maleković S., and Monastiriotis V. (eds) (2013), Decentralization and Development in Southeast Europe, Palgrave Macmillan
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Monastiriotis V. (2013), A Very Greek Crisis, Intereconomics Journal, vol.48 (1), pp.4-9.
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Monastiriotis V. and Antoniades A. (2012), Reform That! Greece’s Failing Reform Technology: Beyond ‘Vested Interests’ and ‘Political Exchange’, ch.4 in Kalyvas S., Pagoulatos G. and Tsoukas H. (eds), From Stagnation to Forced Adjustment: Reforms in Greece, 1974-2010, C. Hurst & Co, London.