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Georgios Nikolakoudis is a Saieh Family Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago for the 2025-2026 academic year. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University (2025) and focuses on macroeconomic fluctuations driven by organizational and informational frictions, and household heterogeneity.
His educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University, 2025
Nikolakoudis's research centers on how micro-level economic frictions aggregate to macroeconomic outcomes. His work spans heterogeneous agent modeling, production network analysis, rational inattention frameworks, and housing market segmentation. He employs rigorous theoretical methods to investigate how informational asymmetries and heterogeneous decision-making shape aggregate phenomena like inflation dynamics and business cycles, with implications for monetary policy design and economic stabilization.
His publication record reveals a cohesive research program integrating microfoundations into macroeconomic theory. Key trends include the propagation of shocks through production networks, the interaction between household heterogeneity and price dynamics, and near-rational behavior in consumption decisions. His work consistently bridges industrial organization, behavioral economics, and macroeconomics while addressing policy-relevant questions in environmental regulation and housing markets.
His achievements include:
- Saieh Family Fellowship at the Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago (2025-2026)
As a recent Ph.D. graduate, Nikolakoudis is in the early career stage with no documented advisees or principal investigator grants. His fellowship position provides dedicated research support through the Becker Friedman Institute, facilitating collaboration with leading economists on projects examining fundamental macroeconomic mechanisms and policy applications.
Nikolakoudis actively participates in research teams centered around the Becker Friedman Institute, collaborating with prominent economists including Greg Kaplan, Giovanni Violante, and Joel Flynn. His work on exporter dynamics and rational inattention demonstrates engagement with cutting-edge theoretical frameworks while maintaining empirical relevance through text-based uncertainty measures and experimental approaches.
