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Ioannis Karfakis is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Hertfordshire Business School (University of Hertfordshire), affiliated with the Business and Digital Research Group. He holds a BSc in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2013), an MSc from the University of Birmingham (2015), a PhD from the University of Sheffield (2020), and a PGCert in Higher Education from Anglia Ruskin University (2024). His research focuses on Applied Macroeconomics and International Finance, with emphasis on public debt, monetary policy, exchange rates, and macro labor issues. Recent work examines the global financial cycle’s impact on Eurozone financial stress and the effects of quantitative easing.
He has published three peer-reviewed articles between 2021–2025, exploring themes such as public debt’s role in real output fluctuations, systemic risk post-2008, and the ECB’s quantitative easing policies. His research combines historical analysis with modern econometric techniques like Markov switching models.
As an educator, he leads modules on Macroeconomics and Research Methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised numerous student dissertations but no formal advisee names are listed. His work reflects a commitment to bridging theoretical macroeconomic frameworks with real-world policy implications.
