Course description
A modern treatment of Behavio(u)ral Macroeconomics according to which, and contrary to narrower economic accounts, people are affected by cognitive, psychological and cultural factors in their decision-making process. The course illustrates how confidence, memory, social interactions, narratives, heuristics and biases matter for the formation of people's beliefs, their decisions and ultimately the aggregate outcome. 

Lecture material
Introduction
We are connected
Beliefs & Expectations
Biases, heuristics and norms
A culture of growth

Problem sets
pSet 1

Years taught
2026 · University of Glasgow 

Course description
The growth part of an advanced undergraduate macroeconomics course. Topics covered include: the Solow growth model, the Romer model of endogenous growth, and the Malthusian model. The textbook of reference is Jones and Volrath.

Lecture material
Introduction
The Solow model
The Solow model and the data
Endogenous growth
The Malthusian model and transition to sustained growth

Problem sets
pSet 1 · pSet 2 · pSet 3 · pSet 4 · pSet 5

Years taught
2025–2026 · University of Glasgow 

Course description
An undergraduate course that aims to equip students with their first macroeconomic models, to learn to approach economic and policy questions in a structured way. The course develops the IS-LM-PC framework largely following Blanchard's macroeconomics textbook; it also provides an extensive introduction to the topics of expectations and the open economy. The course draws on multiple recent and historic events to provide context and bring the material to life. 

Lecture core material
Introduction
The IS-LM model
The Open Economy
Expectations
The (short) Story of Macro

Topics varying by year
TBA (Spring 2026)
Parsing the Macro-news (Spring 2025)
The European Crisis: A Case Study (Spring 2024)

Years taught
2024–2026 · University of Glasgow (co-taught with T. Kirsanova)

Course description
A guest lecture delivered at the LLM course 'Business Strategies and Competition Policy' at the University of Glasgow's Law School. The course is taken by both law and MBA students. The lecture covers key aspects of the US v. Google case, and provides a broader discussion of related behavioural concepts.

Lecture material
Syllabus
Lecture slides 

Years taught
2025 · University of Glasgow (invitation by K. Stylianou)

Course description
A course that aims to illustrate how the economic cycle and financial markets are closely related, and how shocks can propagate in the economy causing economy-wide crises. The course is structured in a project-based way: Students are invited to use both empirical evidence and theoretical concepts to analyze events from around the globe and policy-makers' responses to them, starting with the Great Depression up to the recent COVID crisis. 

Lecture material
Lecture Slides 

Years taught
2021 · Aix-Marseille School of Economics