Michael Haliassos is Research Professor at the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability at Goethe University Frankfurt and Founding Director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance (2015–present). He is a longstanding Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Netherlands-based NETSPAR, and an advisor to the European Central Bank on household finance and consumption in the euro area. He held the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt from 2004 to 2026.
He graduated with first-class honours from the University of Cambridge in 1981 and received his PhD from Yale University in 1987 under the supervision of Nobel laureates James Tobin and William Nordhaus. His research focuses on household finance, a field in which he is recognised internationally as a pioneer. He recently co-authored a review of household finance for the Journal of Economic Literature, at the invitation of the American Economic Association, and co-edited the Review of Financial Studies special issue on household finance (2026). He received the 2021 Hillcrest Award for the best paper in behavioural finance. In 2025, he was named a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.
He has also been active in economic policy analysis and advisory work, contributing articles and interviews to the Greek, German and international press. Together with Yannis Ioannides (Tufts), Thanasis Stengos (Guelph) and Dimitri Vayanos (LSE), he edited the policy blog Greek Economists for Reform, which addressed the Greek fiscal crisis (October 2010–September 2018). He served a two-year term on the Economic Policy panel (2010–2011) and a three-year term as a member of Greece’s 11-member National Council for Research and Technology (ESET), advising the Greek government on funding and promoting research and innovation (2010–2013).
He is currently President of Komvos – Networks of Global Hellenism, an initiative that brings together distinguished Greeks in Greece and abroad to design and implement projects that advance quality of life and prosperity in Greece.
