Professor Konstantinos Angelopoulos

  • Professor of Economics (Economics)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 01413305273
email: Konstantinos.Angelopoulos@glasgow.ac.uk

College of Social Sciences, Adam Smith Business School, Adam Smith Building, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0702-3673

Biography

Konstantinos Angelopoulos joined the Adam Smith Business School in September 2007. He holds degrees from Athens University of Economics and Business and the University of Warwick. He previously worked at the University of Stirling as a lecturer. Konstantinos is also affiliated with CESifo, Munich.

Research interests

Konstantinos is a member of the Macroeconomics research cluster.

Areas of expertise

  • Dynamic general equilibrium
  • Inequality
  • Economic fluctuations
  • Fiscal policies
  • Political economy

Research projects

On the origins of inequality: How important is risk exposure?

Konstantinos' work in Turkana pastoralist communities aims to understand whether risk exposure drives inequality in pre-modern societies. Studying communities that remain as close as possible to the human societies in which inequality first emerged allows us to contribute to a better understanding of the origins of inequality. With colleagues from the MRC/CSO SPHSU (University of Glasgow), Lancaster University, Erasmus University, and the NGO Friends of Lake Turkana, Kenya, they have collected data to investigate the importance of chance events, and of the human behaviour they give rise to, in explaining wealth inequality. Engagement with local communities, NGOs and policymakers has led to a Briefing Note and an educational booklet for use in local schools. This work has been supported by the Scottish Funding Council as part of GCRF.

Socioeconomic inequality and health risk: What do we learn from historical archives?

Konstantinos has been working to understand socioeconomic inequality in conjunction with health risk, exploiting historical information that allows us to evaluate longer-run implications of health risks such as disease outbreaks. This work includes projects on various aspects of inequality, health outcomes and relevant interventions, exploiting lessons from history for the present. These projects are in collaboration with colleagues from the MRC/CSO SPHSU (University of Glasgow), the Athens University of Economics and Business, Lancaster University, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and Glasgow City Archives. The projects have been supported by grant and PhD funding from the ESRC, College of Social Sciences and Erasmus+; this includes a grant funded by ESRC as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response to COVID-19 with outputs including a Briefing Note on post-pandemic mortality dynamics and a Briefing Note on Medium run wealth inequality following COVID-19.

Publications

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2024

Mancy, R. , Stewart, G., Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S. and Angelopoulos, K. (2024) The legacy of epidemics: Influenza and smallpox in the early 20th century in Glasgow, UK. In: Juillet-garzón, Sabrina, Pech-Pelletier, Sarah and Perez, Stanis (eds.) La Cité Malade - Émotions, Cultures et Pouvoirs dans les Villes en Période d’Épidémie (16e-19e Siècles). Editions Jérôme Millon: Grenoble. (In Press)

2023

Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Angelopoulos, K. (2023) An extended period of elevated influenza mortality risk follows the main waves of influenza pandemics. Social Science and Medicine, 328, 115975. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115975) (PMID:37301110) (PMCID:PMC7614920)

Angelopoulos, K. and Kammas, P. (2023) On the persistence of public sector efficiency and the role of historical institutional quality. In: Afonso, António, Jalles, João Tovar and Venâncio, Ana (eds.) Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 129-148. ISBN 9781839109164 (doi: 10.4337/9781839109164.00013)

Angelopoulos, K. , Stewart, G. and Mancy, R. (2023) Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1992), 20221986. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1986) (PMID:36722077) (PMCID:PMC9890117)

2022

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Malley, J. (2022) Cyclical labour income risk in Great Britain. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(1), pp. 116-130. (doi: 10.1002/jae.2860)

Angelopoulos, K. , Mancy, R. , Agol, D., Lazarakis, S. and Papyrakis, E. (2022) Turkana Pastoralists at Risk: Impact Evaluation Report. [Research Reports or Papers]

2021

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2021) Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure. [Research Reports or Papers]

Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Angelopoulos, K. (2021) How Do Pandemics End? Two Decades of Recurrent Outbreak Risk Following the Main Waves. [Research Reports or Papers]

Angelopoulos, A., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Philippopoulos, A. (2021) The distributional consequences of rent seeking. Economic Inquiry, 59(4), pp. 1616-1640. (doi: 10.1111/ecin.13009)

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2021) Briefing Note: Medium-run wealth inequality following COVID-19. [Research Reports or Papers]

2020

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Malley, J. (2020) The distributional implications of asymmetric income dynamics. European Economic Review, 128, 103502. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103502)

Agol, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Papyrakis, E. (2020) Briefing Note: Turkana pastoralists at risk: Why education matters. [Research Reports or Papers]

Agol, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Papyrakis, E. (2020) Voices of the Turkana People. [Research Reports or Papers]

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2020) Briefing Note: Post-pandemic mortality dynamics: historical city-level evidence. [Research Reports or Papers]

2019

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2019) The optimal distribution of the tax burden over the business cycle. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(6), pp. 2298-2337. (doi: 10.1017/S1365100517000700)

2017

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Philippopoulos, A. (2017) Environmental public good provision under robust decision making. Oxford Economic Papers, 69(1), pp. 118-142. (doi: 10.1093/oep/gpw041)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2017) Human capital accumulation and transition to skilled employment. Journal of Human Capital, 11(1), pp. 72-105. (doi: 10.1086/690445)

2016

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2016) Optimal progressive taxation in a model with endogenous skill supply. In: Philippopoulos, Apostolis (ed.) Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms. Series: CESifo seminar series. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 257-292. ISBN 9780262034449

2015

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2015) Tax smoothing in a business cycle model with capital-skill complementarity. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 51, pp. 420-444. (doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2014.11.002)

2014

Angelopoulos, K. , Fernandez, B. X. and Malley, J. R. (2014) The distributional consequences of tax reforms under capital-skill complementarity. Economica, 81(324), pp. 747-767. (doi: 10.1111/ecca.12087)

2013

Angelopoulos, K. , Jiang, W. and Malley, J.R. (2013) Tax reforms under market distortions in product and labour markets. European Economic Review, 61, pp. 28-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.03.003)

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Philippopoulos, A. (2013) First-and second-best allocations under economic and environmental uncertainty. International Tax and Public Finance, 20(3), pp. 360-380. (doi: 10.1007/s10797-012-9234-z)

2012

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Kammas, P. (2012) Does cabinet ideology matter for the structure of tax policies? European Journal of Political Economy, 28(4), pp. 620-635. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2012.06.002)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2012) Tax structure, growth, and welfare in the UK. Oxford Economic Papers, 64(2), pp. 237-258. (doi: 10.1093/oep/gpr035)

2011

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Vassilatos, V. (2011) Do institutions matter for economic fluctuations? Weak property rights in a business cycle model for Mexico. Review of Economic Dynamics, 14(3), pp. 511-531. (doi: 10.1016/j.red.2010.04.002)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2011) The welfare implications of resource allocation policies under uncertainty: The case of public education spending. Journal of Macroeconomics, 33(2), pp. 176-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2010.11.007)

2009

Angelopoulos, K. , Philippopoulos, A. and Vassilatos, V. (2009) The social cost of rent seeking in Europe. European Journal of Political Economy, 25(3), pp. 280-299. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2009.06.001)

Hanley, N. , Tinch, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Davies, A., Barbier, E. B. and Watson, F. (2009) What drives long-run biodiversity change? New insights from combining economics, paleoecology and environmental history. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 57(1), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.03.005)

2008

Angelopoulos, K. and Economides, G. (2008) Fiscal policy, rent seeking and growth under electoral uncertainty: theory and evidence from the OECD. Canadian Journal of Economics = Revue canadienne d'économique, 41(4), pp. 1375-1405. (doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00508.x)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2008) Macroeconomic effects of public education expenditure. CESIFO Economic Studies, 54(3), pp. 471-498. (doi: 10.1093/cesifo/ifn021)

Angelopoulos, K. , Philippopoulos, A. and Tsionas, M. (2008) Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample. Public Choice, 137(1-2), pp. 245-278. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-008-9324-8)

2007

Angelopoulos, K., Economides, G. and Kammas, P. (2007) Tax-Spending Policies and Economic Growth: Theoretical Predictions and Evidence from the OECD. European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), pp. 885-902. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2006.10.001)

Angelopoulos, K. and Philippopoulos, A. (2007) The growth effects of fiscal policy in Greece 1960-2000. Public Choice, 131, pp. 157-175. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-006-9111-3)

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Articles

Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Angelopoulos, K. (2023) An extended period of elevated influenza mortality risk follows the main waves of influenza pandemics. Social Science and Medicine, 328, 115975. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115975) (PMID:37301110) (PMCID:PMC7614920)

Angelopoulos, K. , Stewart, G. and Mancy, R. (2023) Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1992), 20221986. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1986) (PMID:36722077) (PMCID:PMC9890117)

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Malley, J. (2022) Cyclical labour income risk in Great Britain. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 37(1), pp. 116-130. (doi: 10.1002/jae.2860)

Angelopoulos, A., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Philippopoulos, A. (2021) The distributional consequences of rent seeking. Economic Inquiry, 59(4), pp. 1616-1640. (doi: 10.1111/ecin.13009)

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S. and Malley, J. (2020) The distributional implications of asymmetric income dynamics. European Economic Review, 128, 103502. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103502)

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2019) The optimal distribution of the tax burden over the business cycle. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 23(6), pp. 2298-2337. (doi: 10.1017/S1365100517000700)

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Philippopoulos, A. (2017) Environmental public good provision under robust decision making. Oxford Economic Papers, 69(1), pp. 118-142. (doi: 10.1093/oep/gpw041)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2017) Human capital accumulation and transition to skilled employment. Journal of Human Capital, 11(1), pp. 72-105. (doi: 10.1086/690445)

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2015) Tax smoothing in a business cycle model with capital-skill complementarity. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 51, pp. 420-444. (doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2014.11.002)

Angelopoulos, K. , Fernandez, B. X. and Malley, J. R. (2014) The distributional consequences of tax reforms under capital-skill complementarity. Economica, 81(324), pp. 747-767. (doi: 10.1111/ecca.12087)

Angelopoulos, K. , Jiang, W. and Malley, J.R. (2013) Tax reforms under market distortions in product and labour markets. European Economic Review, 61, pp. 28-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.03.003)

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Philippopoulos, A. (2013) First-and second-best allocations under economic and environmental uncertainty. International Tax and Public Finance, 20(3), pp. 360-380. (doi: 10.1007/s10797-012-9234-z)

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Kammas, P. (2012) Does cabinet ideology matter for the structure of tax policies? European Journal of Political Economy, 28(4), pp. 620-635. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2012.06.002)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2012) Tax structure, growth, and welfare in the UK. Oxford Economic Papers, 64(2), pp. 237-258. (doi: 10.1093/oep/gpr035)

Angelopoulos, K. , Economides, G. and Vassilatos, V. (2011) Do institutions matter for economic fluctuations? Weak property rights in a business cycle model for Mexico. Review of Economic Dynamics, 14(3), pp. 511-531. (doi: 10.1016/j.red.2010.04.002)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2011) The welfare implications of resource allocation policies under uncertainty: The case of public education spending. Journal of Macroeconomics, 33(2), pp. 176-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2010.11.007)

Angelopoulos, K. , Philippopoulos, A. and Vassilatos, V. (2009) The social cost of rent seeking in Europe. European Journal of Political Economy, 25(3), pp. 280-299. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2009.06.001)

Hanley, N. , Tinch, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Davies, A., Barbier, E. B. and Watson, F. (2009) What drives long-run biodiversity change? New insights from combining economics, paleoecology and environmental history. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 57(1), pp. 5-20. (doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.03.005)

Angelopoulos, K. and Economides, G. (2008) Fiscal policy, rent seeking and growth under electoral uncertainty: theory and evidence from the OECD. Canadian Journal of Economics = Revue canadienne d'économique, 41(4), pp. 1375-1405. (doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00508.x)

Angelopoulos, K. , Malley, J. and Philippopoulos, A. (2008) Macroeconomic effects of public education expenditure. CESIFO Economic Studies, 54(3), pp. 471-498. (doi: 10.1093/cesifo/ifn021)

Angelopoulos, K. , Philippopoulos, A. and Tsionas, M. (2008) Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample. Public Choice, 137(1-2), pp. 245-278. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-008-9324-8)

Angelopoulos, K., Economides, G. and Kammas, P. (2007) Tax-Spending Policies and Economic Growth: Theoretical Predictions and Evidence from the OECD. European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), pp. 885-902. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2006.10.001)

Angelopoulos, K. and Philippopoulos, A. (2007) The growth effects of fiscal policy in Greece 1960-2000. Public Choice, 131, pp. 157-175. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-006-9111-3)

Book Sections

Mancy, R. , Stewart, G., Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S. and Angelopoulos, K. (2024) The legacy of epidemics: Influenza and smallpox in the early 20th century in Glasgow, UK. In: Juillet-garzón, Sabrina, Pech-Pelletier, Sarah and Perez, Stanis (eds.) La Cité Malade - Émotions, Cultures et Pouvoirs dans les Villes en Période d’Épidémie (16e-19e Siècles). Editions Jérôme Millon: Grenoble. (In Press)

Angelopoulos, K. and Kammas, P. (2023) On the persistence of public sector efficiency and the role of historical institutional quality. In: Afonso, António, Jalles, João Tovar and Venâncio, Ana (eds.) Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 129-148. ISBN 9781839109164 (doi: 10.4337/9781839109164.00013)

Angelopoulos, K. , Asimakopoulos, S. and Malley, J. (2016) Optimal progressive taxation in a model with endogenous skill supply. In: Philippopoulos, Apostolis (ed.) Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms. Series: CESifo seminar series. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 257-292. ISBN 9780262034449

Research Reports or Papers

Angelopoulos, K. , Mancy, R. , Agol, D., Lazarakis, S. and Papyrakis, E. (2022) Turkana Pastoralists at Risk: Impact Evaluation Report. [Research Reports or Papers]

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2021) Pandemic-Induced Wealth and Health Inequality and Risk Exposure. [Research Reports or Papers]

Schroeder, M. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Angelopoulos, K. (2021) How Do Pandemics End? Two Decades of Recurrent Outbreak Risk Following the Main Waves. [Research Reports or Papers]

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2021) Briefing Note: Medium-run wealth inequality following COVID-19. [Research Reports or Papers]

Agol, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Papyrakis, E. (2020) Briefing Note: Turkana pastoralists at risk: Why education matters. [Research Reports or Papers]

Agol, D., Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Papyrakis, E. (2020) Voices of the Turkana People. [Research Reports or Papers]

Angelopoulos, K. , Lazarakis, S., Mancy, R. and Schroeder, M. (2020) Briefing Note: Post-pandemic mortality dynamics: historical city-level evidence. [Research Reports or Papers]

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Grants

Konstantinos has received funding from the ESRC SFC, EU funds, Scottish Government, charitable sources and University of Glasgow schemes.

Supervision

Konstantinos supervises PhD students in the areas of inequality, dynamic general equilibrium and fiscal policy.

  • M. Shroder
    Transferable Skills and Risky Jobs: An Investigation of Occupational Decisions and Life Cycle Dynamics

Teaching

  • Public economics (Honours)
  • Inequality and policy (Honours)
  • Macroeconomics (MSc)
  • Macroeconomic analysis of inequality (MRes)

Research datasets

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2023

Angelopoulos, K. , Mancy, R. and Stewart, G. (2023) Data and code for: Local infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment. [Data Collection]

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Dr Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Reader in Economics