Anastasios Karantounias

Anastasios Karantounias is an Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, University of Surrey. He also holds several prestigious affiliations including being an Academic Visitor at the Bank of England, an Associate of the Centre for Macroeconomics (LSE branch), a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey, and a member of the Macro Finance Society.

Dr. Karantounias received his academic training at New York University, earning his PhD in Economics in 2008 and a Master's degree in Economics in 2004. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Economics in 2001.

His major research interests focus on macroeconomics with particular emphasis on optimal fiscal and monetary policy, macro-finance, ambiguity, imperfect information, and optimal carbon taxation. His work bridges theoretical macroeconomic frameworks with practical policy applications, often incorporating behavioral elements and uncertainty into traditional models. He has published extensively in top journals including the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Theory, and Theoretical Economics.

Dr. Karantounias' recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward increasingly sophisticated modeling of uncertainty in macroeconomic policy. His work on model uncertainty, fiscal policy under ambiguity, and behavioral factors in macroeconomic outcomes represents cutting-edge research at the intersection of macroeconomics and decision theory. His most recent work extends into climate policy, examining optimal carbon taxation in a global economy context.

Dr. Karantounias has been actively involved in the academic community through organizing major workshops including the Surrey Workshop on Macroeconomics (May 2022), the Macroeconomics Network in the Southwest Workshop (November 2023), and the Bristol-Surrey Workshop in Macroeconomics (March 2024). He has also organized multiple contributed sessions at the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association (2013, 2017, 2019, 2025).

Prior to joining the University of Surrey, Dr. Karantounias worked as a research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He also gained research experience at the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and the European Central Bank. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University and as a Visiting Professor at LUISS Guido Carli and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. His previous teaching appointments include Emory University.