Costas Azariadis

Titles:

Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences

Titles:

Graduate Admissions Officer

Office Contact Information

Degree:

Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University

Office:

Seigle Hall 315G

Office hours:

By Appt.

Mailbox:

Department of Economics
Campus Box, 1208
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-3629

Phone:

314-935-5639

Fax:

314-935-4156

Email:

azariadi@wustl.edu

URL:

Homepage

Research specialization

Macroeconomic Dynamics; Economic Development; Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Selected Publications

Books

Intertemporal Macroeconomics, 512 pages. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, February 1993.

Journal Articles

"Self-Fulfilling Prophecies", Journal of Economic Theory (December 1981): 380-396.
"Threshold Externalities in Economic Development" (with Allan Drazen), Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 1990): 501-526.
"Poverty Traps" (with John Stachuzski), Handbook of Economic Growth, ch.5.

See CV for complete list.

Curriculum Vitae:

Background

He received his Ph.D. degree in 1975 from Carnegie-Mellon, and has been affiliated with Brown, Penn, and UCLA. He was tenured in 1981 (Penn) and promoted to full professor in 1983 (Penn). He served as the Director of UCLA’s Program for Dynamic Economics from 1993 to 1997 and from 2000-2006. He has served as editor or co-editor for a number of top journals and has also been on journal advisory boards. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His research focus is on macroeconomic dynamics and economic development.