Dr Eleni Stathopoulou

Department of Economics

Lecturer in Economics

Dr Eleni Stathopoulou smiling at the camera

e.stathopoulou@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3416

539, 9 Mappin Street

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Dr Eleni Stathopoulou
Department of Economics
539
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

Profile: Eleni holds a BSc in Economics from Athens University of Economics and Business, an MBA from Drexel University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester. Before joining the University of Sheffield, she held academic positions at Nottingham Business School.

Research interests

Eleni is an applied theorist and her main area of expertise lies within the fields of Microeconomics and Environmental Economics.

Her work focuses on environmental policy making. She is also interested in the Net Zero energy transition and she has worked as a Work Package leader on the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Smart-BEEjS project, to study and support cities and communities in their goal to produce more energy than they use and boost knowledge sharing across stakeholders, exploiting a human-centric and energy-just approach to designing Positive Energy Districts (PEDs).

Eleni is interested in supervising PhD students in environmental economics and industrial organisation.

Publications

Journal articles

Varvarigos D & Stathopoulou E (2022) On the relation between corruption and market competition. Economic Inquiry. View this article in WRRO
Adetutu M, Odusanya K, Stathopoulou E & Weyman-Jones T (2022) Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism. Oxford Economic Papers. View this article in WRRO
Espinola-Arredondo A, Stathopoulou E & Munoz-Garcia F (2022) Regulators and environmental groups : better together or apart?. Environment and Development Economics, 27(1), 40-66. View this article in WRRO
Adetutu MO & Stathopoulou E (2021) Information asymmetry in voluntary environmental agreements: theory and evidence from UK climate change agreements. Oxford Economic Papers, 73(2), 644-670.
Stathopoulou E & Gautier L (2019) Green Alliances and the Role of Taxation. Environmental and Resource Economics, 74(3), 1189-1206.

Teaching activities

Eleni currently teaches the following modules:

ECN310 Environmental Economics
ECN606 Public Economics