Dr Georgios Efthyvoulou
BA, MSc, PhD
School of Economics
Senior Lecturer in Economics
+44 114 222 3412
Full contact details
School of Economics
Room B15
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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Georgios graduated from the University of Cyprus in 2003. He earned an MSc in Economics from UCL (University College London) in 2005 and a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London in 2010.
After completing his PhD, he was appointed to a two-year research fellowship at the University of Birmingham, where he contributed to a large-scale research project funded by the European Commission.
Georgios joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in September 2012 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2021. He is a Research Fellow at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) and an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research.
- Research interests
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Georgios’s main research area is political economy, with particular interests in elections, public opinion, political behaviour, migration, and political violence. He has also worked on topics related to international business and banking.
For details of Georgios’s latest research, please visit his personal website.
https://sites.google.com/site/georgiosefthyvoulouGeorgios is interested in supervising PhD students undertaking applied research, particularly in political economy.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Beyond the headlines: The intangible costs of terrorism. Economica. View this article in WRRO
- Terrorism, perpetrators and polarization: Evidence from natural experiments. Journal of Politics, 87(3). View this article in WRRO
- Terrorist violence and the fuzzy frontier: national and supranational identities in Britain. Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 41(2), 730-756. View this article in WRRO
- The emotional effect of terrorism. Scientific Reports, 14(1). View this article in WRRO
- Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?. British Journal of Political Science.
- Micromotives and macromoves: Political preferences and internal migration in England and Wales. Journal of Economic Geography.
- What's left after right‐wing extremism? The effects on political orientation. European Journal of Political Research, 62(1), 338-351.
- Government ideology and international migration. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
- You (Br)exit, I stay: The effect of the Brexit vote on internal migration. Political Geography, 95.
- Did terrorism affect voting in the Brexit referendum?. British Journal of Political Science.
- Electoral motives and the subnational allocation of foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa. European Economic Review, 127, 103430-103430.
- Interlocking directorships and patenting coordination. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 30(4), 382-411.
- Bank Value and Geographic Diversification: Regional vs Global. Journal of Financial Stability, 36, 225-245. View this article in WRRO
- Foreign vs domestic ownership on debt reduction: An investigation of acquisition targets in Italy and Spain. International Business Review, 26(5), 801-815. View this article in WRRO
- Political Cycles in Public Expenditure: Butter vs Guns. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(3), 582-604. View this article in WRRO
- Financial Constraints, Innovation Performance and Sectoral Disaggregation. Manchester School. View this article in WRRO
- Market power in CEE banking sectors and the impact of the global financial crisis. Journal of Banking and Finance, 40(1), 11-27.
- Political budget cycles in the European Union and the impact of political pressures. Public Choice, 153(3-4), 295-327.
- The impact of financial stress on sectoral productivity. Economics Letters, 116(2), 240-243.
- Political cycles under external economic constraints: Evidence from Cyprus. Journal of Economics and Business, 63(6), 638-662.
- Alphabet Economics: The link between names and reputation. Journal of Socio Economics, 37(3), 1266-1285.
- Beyond the headlines: The intangible costs of terrorism. Economica. View this article in WRRO
- Grants
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Georgios received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to undertake a research project entitled “The effect of terrorism on public attitudes and individual wellbeing in Great Britain”. The project ran from June 2021 to November 2023.
For outputs and further details, please visit the project website.
https://sites.google.com/view/terror-attitudes-wellbeing
- Teaching activities
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Georgios currently teaches two Level 3 undergraduate modules: Political Economy and Economics Undergraduate Dissertation. In previous years, he taught Applied Macroeconometrics and Business Finance to postgraduate students.
Georgios’s teaching aims to create an engaging learning environment that encourages students to think critically, develop their analytical skills, and apply economic concepts to real-world issues. His teaching draws on the latest research, enabling students to engage with contemporary topics while appreciating how research generates new knowledge and informs policy and decision-making.