Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou

Overview

Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou (Larry) is a full born Greek (Thessaloniki) with 3rd generation roots from Cappadocia.

In Sep. '22, he joined CITY University London as a Ph.D. candidate in Economics under the supervision of Sotiris Georganas and Christoph Schlegel. His research interests lie in Game Theory, Financial Technology & DeFi, cryptocurrencies and their peer effects, experimental economics and behaviour change in high-stakes betting experiments.
Currently, he is working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for LSE and City University, on Applied Econometrics and Data Analysis, Intermediate Micro, Game Theory and Statistics.

- He holds a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics and Markets, from the University Carlos III of Madrid with a 2:1 honours distinction.
- He holds a M.Sc. in Economic Analysis and Policy from the University of Ioannina, Greece with a "cum laude" distinction.
His past graduate theses have explored the joint causal effect of transnational and international terrorism on USA's growth in state-level and dealt with augmented gravity models that analyze EU trade flows and trade potential for HS commodities globally.

- He also holds a Bachelor (B.Sc.) in Economics with specialisation in Economic Analysis and Policy.

Lazaros is a musician, a video-games enthusiast and a gym worm. In his free time he unboxes tech stuff in YouTube and designs digital artwork and logos.

Qualifications

• Master of Science, M.Sc. in Industrial Economics and Markets (2:1 Hons), Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, Jun 2022
• Master of Science, M.Sc. in Economic Analysis and Policy (cum laude Hons), University of Ioannina, Greece, Feb 2019
• Bachelor of Science, B.Sc. in Economics, University of Ioannina, Greece, Sep 2017
• Certificate on Econometric Methods to estimate causal effects, Summer School on Policy Evaluation, University of Ioánnina, Greece

Employment

• GTA (EC3017 & EC1008), City, University of London, Oct 2022 – present
• GTA (Stats, GT & Micro), London School of Economics and Political Science, Sep 2022 – present
• Business Data Analyst (Intern), PwC, Feb – Aug 2022
• Lending Officer (Intern), Piraeus Bank, Mar – May 2019
• GTA (Microeconomic Theory 101), University of Ioannina, Oct 2018 – Feb 2019
• Econometrics Tutor, Theory Economics Ltd, Sep 2018 – Aug 2022

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), German (can read, write, speak and understand spoken), Greek, Modern (1453-) (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can read, speak and understand spoken).

1^st supervisor

• Dr Sotiris Georganas, Reader in Behavioural Economics

2^nd supervisor

• Dr Christoph Schlegel, Senior Lecturer in Economics