Yannis Dafermos is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. He is also the Research Director of the SOAS Department of Economics, a Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and a Fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM). His research interests include financial macroeconomics, climate change and finance, ecological macroeconomics, climate policies and economic development, and inequality. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, the Journal of Financial Stability, Nature Climate Change, the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics and the Review of Political Economy. He has worked as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on projects funded, amongst others, by INSPIRE/ClimateWorks Foundation, Rebuilding Macroeconomics/ESRC and the Network for Social Change. He is a Committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES) and a Council member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
Research interests
Financial macroeconomics; Climate change and finance; Ecological macroeconomics; Climate policies and economic development; Inequality
Publications
Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach
Dafermos, Yannis, Gabor, Daniela and Michell, Jo, 2023, New Political Economy
COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses
Stevano, Sara, Franz, Tobias, Dafermos, Yannis and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, 2021, Canadian Journal of Development Studies /Revue canadienne d’études du développement (42), 1/2, pp 1-17
Climate change, central banking and financial supervision: beyond the risk exposure approach
Dafermos, Yannis (2022). In: Kappes, Sylvio, (eds.), Rochon, Louis-Philippe, (eds.) and Vallet, Guillaume, (eds.), The Future of Central Banking. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp 175-194
Dafermos, Yannis and Nikolaidi, Maria (2022). London: (The INSPIRE Sustainable Central Banking Toolbox, Policy Briefing Paper 7. SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance; LSE Gratham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
Dafermos, Yannis, Gabor, Daniela, Nikolaidi, Maria, van Lerven, Frank and Vargas, Mauricio (2022). Hamburg, London and Bristol: (Greenpeace Germany; SOAS University of London; University of Greenwich, University of the West of England)
Dafermos, Yannis, Gabor, Daniela, Nikolaidi, Maria and van Lerven, Frank (2022). London: (The INSPIRE Sustainable Central Banking Toolbox, Policy Briefing Paper 7, SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance; LSE Gratham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
An Environmental Mandate, now what? Alternatives for Greening the Bank of England's Corporate Bond Purchases
Dafermos, Yannis, Gabor, Daniela, Nikolaidi, Maria and van Lerven, Frank (2022). London and Bristol: (SOAS University of London; University of Greenwich; University of the West of England)
The Effects of Natural Disasters on Price Stability in the Euro Area
Beirne, John, Dafermos, Yannis, Kriwoluzky, Alexander, Renzhi, Nuobu, Volz, Ulrich and Wittich, Jana (2021). London: (SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 244)
The Price of Hesitation: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Price Stability and What the ECB Must Do about It
Dafermos, Yannis, Kriwoluzky, Alexander, Vargas, Mauricio, Volz, Ulrich and Wittich, Jana (2021). Hamburg, Berlin and London: (Greenpeace Germany; German Institute for Economic Research; and SOAS, University of London)