Vella Eugenia
Eugenia Vella is an Assistant Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and a research associate at ELIAMEP. She obtained her PhD in Economics from AUEB in 2013.
From 2015 to 2020, Eugenia was a permanent Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield (UK). She has also worked as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Fundació MOVE (2018-2020) in Barcelona and as a Max Weber (2013-14) and Jean Monnet (2014-15) Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Her primary research field is International Macroeconomics. In a series of articles published in peer-reviewed international journals, she examines issues related to fiscal policy, such as the interaction between fiscal consolidation, tax evasion, and corruption; the effects of fiscal austerity in monetary unions; the impact of public sector size on private sector productivity; The role of fiscal policy during the COVID-19 pandemic; and the consequences of fiscal austerity on skill mismatch in the labor market.
Her recent research focuses on the macroeconomics of migration, analyzing the interaction between fiscal consolidation and migration during the Greek economic crisis (2010-2015) and the macroeconomic effects of migration inflows in Germany between 2006 and 2019. She was the lead co-editor of a collective volume on understanding migration through the lens of macroeconomics.
Publications in peer-reviewed international journals (since joining AUEB)
- Fiscal Tightening and Skills Mismatch, European Economic Review, 2025, 174, 104984 (with K. Mavrigiannakis and A. Vasilatos).
- Which Crisis Support Fiscal Measures Worked during the COVID-19 Shock in Europe?, SERIEs—Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2023 (with E. Pappa and A. Ramos).
- Emigration and Fiscal Austerity in a Depression, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, 144, 104539 (with G. Bandeira and J. Caballé).
- Automation and Sectoral Reallocation, SERIEs—Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, special issue: Juan J. Dolado, 2022, 13, 335–362 (with D.Hutschenreiter and T. Santini).
- Does Immigration Grow the Pie? Asymmetric Evidence from Germany, European Economic Review, 2021, 138, 103846 (with N. Maffei-Faccioli).
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