Staff Catalogue

ANDROS KOURTELLOS

KOURTELLOS ANDROS
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PROFESSOR
Department of Economics
FEB 02 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 112
University Campus

Andros Kourtellos is the Department Chair and Professor in Economics at the University of Cyprus. He is a member of the Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) of the University of Chicago. He is also a senior fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) of the University of Bologna and a member of the academic council of the Economic Research Centre (ERC) of the University of Cyprus. Recently, he has been awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships as a researcher as well as a supervisor.

His primary research interests are in the areas of econometrics, intergenerational mobility, social interactions, economic growth, macroeconomic forecasting. His econometric contributions include both theory and applications using nonlinear models, spatial econometrics, model averaging methods, and mixed sampling frequencies. He developed estimation and inference for a threshold regression model that allows for an endogenous threshold variable and a model that allows for threshold social interaction effects. These models are particularly useful for the estimation of multiple equilibria and poverty traps. Recently, he has employed this class of models to uncover status traps in the intergenerational mobility process. His work has been published in journals such as Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Econometrics.

Kourtellos earned a B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Cyprus in 1996 and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. He held visiting appointments at Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Chicago.

Econometrics, intergenerational mobility, social interactions, economic growth, macroeconomic forecasting

SOCIAL THRESHOLD REGRESSION
with A. Konstantinidi and Y. Sun
Journal of Econometrics (accepted), 2023

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN PREFERENCES FOR REDISTRIBUTION
with K. Petrou
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022

ROBUST CORRELATES OF GROWTH SPELLS: DO INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION MATTER?
with C. Tsangarides
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022

THE GREAT GATSBY CURVE
with Steven N. Durlauf and Chih Ming Tan
Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 14, 2022

SCHOOLS OPENING AND COVID-19 DIFFUSION: EVIDENCE FROM GEOLOCALIZED MICRODATA
 with E. Amodio, M. Battisti,  G. Maggio, C. M. Maida,
European Economic Review, 2021

ENDOGENEITY IN SEMIPARAMETRIC THRESHOLD REGRESSION
with T. Stengos and Y. Sun,
Econometric Theory, 2021

LOCAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
with Christa Marr and Chih Ming Tan
European Economic Review,126, 2020.

BARRIERS TO PRICE CONVERGENCE
with M. Glushenkova and M. Zachariadis, 
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 33, 1081-97, 2018.

STATUS TRAPS
with Steven N. Durlauf and Chih Ming Tan 
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 35:2, 265-287, 2017

STRUCTURAL THRESHOLD REGRESSION 
with Thanasis Stengos and Chih Ming Tan
Econometric Theory, 32, 827-860, 2016.

ROBUST DETERMINANTS OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY IN THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
with Christa Marr and Chih Ming Tan
European Economic Review, 18, 132-147, 2016. 

FAILURE TO LAUNCH? THE ROLE OF LAND INEQUALITY IN TRANSITION DELAYS
with Ioanna Stylianou and Chih Ming Tan, 
European Economic Review62, 98-113, 2013.

SHOULD MACROECONOMIC FORECASTERS USE DAILY FINANCIAL DATA AND HOW?
with Elena Andreou, and Eric Ghysels, 
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2013.

IS GOD IN THE DETAILS? A REEXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN ECONOMIC GROWTH,
with Steven N. Durlauf and Chih Ming Tan, 
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27, 1059-75, 2012.

REGRESSION MODELS WITH MIXED SAMPLING FREQUENCIES,”
with Elena Andreou and Eric Ghysels, 
Journal of Econometrics158, 246-261, 2010.

ARE ANY GROWTH THEORIES ROBUST?
with Steven N. Durlauf and Chih Ming Tan, 
The Economic Journal,118, 329–346, 2008.

THE LOCAL SOLOW GROWTH MODEL
with Steven N. Durlauf and Artur Minkin, 
European Economic Review, 45, 928-940, 2001.