
Anastasios Karantounias
Research Economist and Associate Advisercurriculum vitae



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Biography
Anastasios Karantounias is a research economist and associate adviser on the macroeconomics and monetary policy team in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His major field of study is macroeconomics with a particular emphasis on optimal fiscal and monetary policy, robustness, and imperfect information.
Prior to joining the Bank in 2008, Dr. Karantounias was a research and teaching assistant at New York University. He also worked as a research intern at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and the Monetary Policy Strategy Division of the European Central Bank.
Dr. Karantounias has published in journals including the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and Theoretical Economics and has continuously presented his research at several conferences, including the meetings of the Society for Economic Dynamics, the American Economic Association, the Econometric Society, and the European Economic Association.
Dr. Karantounias received his doctorate in economics in 2008 from New York University and a master's degree in economics in 2004 from the same institution. He received his bachelor's degree in economics in 2001 from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece.
Working Papers
Atlanta Fed Working Papers
2017-14
Overconfidence, Subjective Perception, and Pricing Behavior
Pierpaolo Benigno and Anastasios G. Karantounias
November 2017
Abstract | Full text(400 KB)
2017-13
A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation
M.M. Croce, A.G. Karantounias, S. Raymond, and L. Schmid
November 2017
Abstract | Full text(330 KB)
2017-12
Optimal Time-Consistent Taxation with Default
Anastasios G. Karantounias
November 2017
Abstract | Full text(1,309 KB)
2016-6a
Fiscal Austerity in Ambiguous Times
Axelle Ferrière and Anastasios G. Karantounias
March 2016 (revised January 2018)
Abstract | Full text(1,265 KB)
2013-7c
Optimal Fiscal Policy with Recursive Preferences
Anastasios G. Karantounias
(Revised) January 2018
Abstract | Full text(895 KB)
2009-29a
Managing Pessimistic Expectations and Fiscal Policy
Anastasios G. Karantounias
Revised March 2012
Abstract | Full text(270 KB)