TRAILS Coordinator / Professor
Democritus University of Thrace (Coordinator)
Greece
He earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of Macedonia in 2001, followed by an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick in 2003. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at DUTH in 2009. Dr. Pragidis’s research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. He is particularly interested in applying innovative methodologies, such as textual analysis, to measure economic uncertainty and its effects. He is also engaged in experimental economics, designing and conducting experiments to identify the causal impacts of individual decision-making and policy interventions. In addition to his academic research, Dr. Pragidis has played a leading role in several EU-funded projects to develop and implement forward-looking economic policy tools. His work has been published in numerous high-impact academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Stability, the International Journal of Financial Economics, and the International Review of Financial Analysis.