Department of Economics

Dr Yannis Dafermos

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Roles: Department of Economics Reader in Economics Research & Knowledge Exchange Convenor Centre for Sustainable Finance Member
Department: Department of Economics
Qualifications: BSc (Athens), MPhil (Athens), PhD (Athens)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 272
Email address: yd6@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: +44(0) 207 898 4619

Biography

Yannis Dafermos is a Reader in Economics at SOAS University of London. His research interests lie in financial macroeconomics, climate finance, ecological macroeconomics, climate-aligned development, inequality and the political economy of the green transition.

His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, the Journal of Financial Stability, Nature Climate Change and New Political Economy. He has acted as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in several projects about the role of macroeconomic and financial policies in the green transition and has run capacity building programmes on climate change for many central banks.

Yannis is the Research & Knowledge Exchange Convenor of the SOAS Economics Department, a Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance and a Fellow at the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM). He is also a Committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), an Associate Editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, an Editorial Board member of the journal Ecological Economics and an Associate Editor of the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy.

He has acted as consultant for several organisations, including Banco Central do Brasil, ClientEarth, Greenpeace, UNCTAD and the New Economics Foundation. As SOAS he teaches Macroeconomic Analysis and Advanced Macroeconomics.

Research interests

Financial macroeconomics
Climate finance
Ecological macroeconomics
Climate-aligned development
Inequality
Political economy of the green transition

PhD Supervision

Name	Title
Adam George	Assessing climate policies in the UK: a macrofinancial modelling approach.
Pedro Oliveira Pratas e Sousa	An empirical stock-flow consistent approach to policy evaluation in Portugal.
Ehireme Alexis Uddin	Climate Change and Finance in Nigeria.

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Publications

Contact Yannis

Email: yd6@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 207 898 4619
Social media: Visit the Twitter page for Yannis

Research

Department of Economics & Centre for Sustainable Finance

Unlocking finance and managing climate risks for India’s transition to a resilient, Paris-aligned economy

This project, led by the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), aims at engaging with and supporting the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on climate-related issues.

Department of Economics

Managing supercycles: globalisation and institutional change

This project explores a ‘third’ cycle in macroeconomics that has a longer horizon than the standard business and financial cycles, and is anchored in institutional and ideational struggles.

Centre for Sustainable Finance & Department of Economics

Climate change and central bank asset purchases

This project provides the first integrated analysis of how the corporate bond holdings of the Bank of England and the European Central Bank can become climate-aligned.

Department of Economics & Centre for Sustainable Finance

Greening the Eurosystem collateral framework

Investigating how the Eurosystem collateral could become greener, as well as what implications this would have for credit conditions and investment in the Eurozone.

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics at SOAS University London.

School of Law, Gender and Media & Department of Economics

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Department of Economics

MSc Economics

MSc Economics at SOAS University of London

Dr Yannis Dafermos

Key information

Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Personal links

Publications

Articles Open

Editorial to the special issue

FX swaps, shadow banks and the global dollar footprint

Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach

Assessing climate policies: an ecological stock-flow consistent perspective

How can green differentiated capital requirements affect climate risks? A dynamic macrofinancial analysis

Climate risks and financial stability

COVID-19 and Crises of Capitalism: Intensifying Inequalities and Global Responses

The Wall Street Consensus in pandemic times: what does it mean for climate-aligned development?

Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy

Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: a Godley–Minsky synthesis

Climate change challenges for central banks and financial regulators

A stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model

Linking functional with personal income distribution: a stock-flow consistent approach

The ‘other half’ of the public debt–economic growth relationship: a note on Reinhart and Rogoff

Finance, monetary policy and the institutional foundations of the Phillips curve

What drives inequality and poverty in the EU? Exploring the impact of macroeconomic and institutional factors

Working poor, labour market and social protection in the EU: A comparative perspective

Liquidity preference, uncertainty, and recession in a stock-flow consistent model

Finance, inflation and employment: A post-Keynesian/Kaleckian analysis

Book reviews Open

Review of: Hein, E., Distribution and Growth after Keynes: A Post-Keynesian Guide, Edward Elgar, 2014

Review of: Hein, E., Money, Distribution Conflict and Capital Accumulation: Contributions to ‘Monetary Analysis’, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Book sections Open

Financing Climate Investment in the EU: The Role of Monetary and Financial Policies

Climate change, central banking and financial supervision: beyond the risk exposure approach

Fiscal policy and ecological sustainability: a post-Keynesian perspective

Monographs Open

Broken promises: the ECB’s widening Paris gap

Towards a climate just financial system

Greening capital requirements

The ECB Paris gap: substantive but treatable

Greening collateral frameworks

An Environmental Mandate, now what? Alternatives for Greening the Bank of England's Corporate Bond Purchases

The Effects of Natural Disasters on Price Stability in the Euro Area

Climate change, central banking and financial supervision: beyond the risk exposure approach

The Price of Hesitation: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Price Stability and What the ECB Must Do about It

Greening the Eurosystem collateral framework: How to decarbonise the ECB's monetary policy

Decarbonising is easy: Beyond market neutrality in the ECB's corporate QE

Decarbonising the Bank of England's pandemic QE: 'Perfectly sensible'

Institutional supercycles: an evolutionary macro-finance approach

Finance and Climate Change: A Progressive Green Finance Strategy for the UK

Fiscal policy and ecological sustainability: A post-Keynesian perspective

Can green QE reduce global warming?

Climate change, financial stability and monetary policy

A stock-flow-fund ecological macroeconomic model

A new ecological macroeconomic model: analysing the interactions between the ecosystem, the financial system and the macroeconomy

Debt cycles, instability and fiscal rules: a Godley-Minsky model

Contact Yannis

Research

Unlocking finance and managing climate risks for India’s transition to a resilient, Paris-aligned economy

Managing supercycles: globalisation and institutional change

Climate change and central bank asset purchases

Greening the Eurosystem collateral framework

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