Haliassos holds the Chair in Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is currently Director of the Center for Financial Studies and Executive Director of the Excellence Center S.A.F.E. at Goethe University. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), International Research Fellow of NETSPAR (The Netherlands), and External Fellow of the Centre for Finance and Credit Markets (University of Nottingham, UK). He recently completed a two-year term on the Panel of the journal Economic Policy (2010-11). Haliassos received a B.A. in Economics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1987. Prior to joining the faculty of Goethe University Frankfurt in 2004, he was a faculty member at the University of Maryland , and then at the University of Cyprus, where he also served as Deputy Dean of the School of Economics and Business. He has held visiting appointments inter alia at the European University Institute in the Chair of Finance and Consumption, and at the Center of Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF). He is advisor to the European Central Bank on the construction of a Eurozone Survey of Household Finances and Consumption. His research interests lie in Macroeconomics and Finance with emphasis on household finance. His papers have appeared in major international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review and the Economic Journal; and in edited volumes, including the Handbook of Monetary Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Finance. He has co-edited an MIT Press volume on Household Portfolios, that has become a standard reference in household finance. He has recently edited a book on "Financial Innovation: Too Much or Too Little?", published by MIT Press in 2013, and co-edited a special issue of the Review of Finance on Household Finance (2012).Haliassos is currently a member of the Greek National Council on Research and Technology (ESET).