Sofia Kalantzi

Biography

Sofia Kalantzi is a lecturer of economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. She holds a bachelor of science in economics from Aristotle University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and with the highest GPA since the inception of the School of Economics. She received her PhD in economics from the LeBow College of Business of Drexel University, where she was the recipient of the Symbolic Degree of Drexel University on behalf of all PhD graduates of the LeBow College of Business.

As a PhD candidate at Drexel, Kalantzi has taught many courses, including Introduction to Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and International Money and Finance. She achieved the highest course evaluations at Drexel for the Intermediate of Macroeconomics class (4.00/4.00), and the highest course evaluations for the class Introduction to Macroeconomics (3.97/4.00 for both sessions). In recognition of her overall teaching philosophy, she received the 2015 Dr. John J. and Dr. Margaret T. Clark Outstanding Ph.D. Student Instructor Award.

Kalantzi's research focuses on macroeconomics, macro-prudential policies, banking, monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial economics, time-series econometrics, and applied macroeconomics. Her research examines some key facts of the recent global financial crisis, providing an intuition as to why different policies were implemented by many countries in order to mitigate the adverse effects of the financial crisis. Furthermore, it explains how those policies are transmitted in the presence of financial market frictions. Her findings open the discussion of the welfare implications of alternative policies that seek to stabilize the economy after a period of financial distress and their various real effects on the economy.

Kalantzi is a member of the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Association, Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Society, and an assistant fellow at UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy, and Peace.

Recent Courses

• NBA 5245 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
• MGMT 5240 - Macroeconomic Theory
• MGMT 5245 - Managerial Economics
• BANA 5020 - Microeconomics

Academic Degrees

• PhD School of Economics, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, 2016
• BS Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2008