Dr Dimitrios Varvarigos
Associate Professor in Economics
School/Department: School of Business
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2184
Email: dv33@leicester.ac.uk
Address: Office 2.05, Mallard House (Brookfield campus), 266 London Road, Leicester LE2 1RQ, United Kingdom
Profile
Research
Publications
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Representative publications:
Varvarigos, D. (2021). “Upstream intergenerational transfers in economic development: The role of family ties and their cultural transmission,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 96, Article 102514.
Varvarigos, D. (2020). “Cultural transmission, education-promoting attitudes, and economic development,” Review of Economic Dynamics, 37, 173-194.
Ohinata, A., and Varvarigos, D. (2020). “Demographic transition and fertility rebound in economic development,” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 122, 1640-1670.
Kontogiannis, N., Litina, A., and Varvarigos, D. (2019). “Occupation-induced status, social norms, and economic growth,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 163, 348-360.
Varvarigos, D. (2017). “Cultural norms, the persistence of tax evasion, and economic growth,” Economic Theory, 63, 961‐995.
Palivos, T., and Varvarigos, D. (2017) “Pollution abatement as a source of stabilisation and long‐run growth,” Macroeconomic Dynamics, 21, 644‐676.
Varvarigos, D., and Arsenis, P. (2015) “Corruption, fertility, and human capital,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 109, 145‐162.
Varvarigos, D., and Zakaria, I.Z. (2013) “Endogenous fertility in a growth model with public and private health expenditures,” Journal of Population Economics, 26, 67‐85.
Varvarigos, D. (2010) “Inflation, volatile public spending, and endogenously sustained growth,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 1893‐1906.
Varvarigos, D. (2010) “Environmental degradation, longevity, and the dynamics of economic development,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 46, 59‐73.
Blackburn, K., and Varvarigos, D. (2008) “Human capital accumulation and output growth in a stochastic environment,” Economic Theory, 36, 435‐452.
Varvarigos, D. (2007) “Policy variability, productive spending, and growth,” Economica, 74, 299‐313.
Supervision
I am willing to supervise students who want to undertake research work that involves the adoption of dynamic economic models in the analysis of the following topics:
• Growth theory
• Cultural and social aspects in economic development
• Corruption and economic activity
• Demographic change
Teaching
I am teaching the following UG modules:
• EC3061: Development Economics
• EC3001: Advanced Macroeconomics