In addition to his role in the Digital Economy Lab, Christos holds several academic appointments, including as an Associate Research Professor at Arizona State University, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Nicosia, Non-resident fellow at Baylor University, and serves as a Senior Adviser on the National Artificial Intelligence Institute in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Christos’ primary academic research focuses on labor economics, the digital economy, and personal finance and well-being with articles in leading academic journals and a wide array of popular press media.

Representative articles:

Makridis, Christos A., Michael Froewis, Kiran Sridhar, and Rainer Boehme. (2023). The Rise of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Evaluating the Role of Airdrops and Governance Tokens. Journal of Corporate Finance, 79.

Liu, Tim, Christos A. Makridis, Paige Ouimet, and Elena Simintzi. (2023). The Distribution of Non-Wage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity. Review of Financial Studies, 36(1): 194–234.

Makridis, Christos A. (2022). The Social Transmission of Economic Sentiment on Consumption. European Economic Review, 148: 104232.

Makridis, Christos A., Anthony Boese, Rafael Fricks, Don Workman, Molly Klote, Joshua Mueller, Isabel Hildebrandt, Michael Kim, and Gil Alterovitz. (2023). Informing the Ethical Review of Human Subjects Research Utilizing Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Computer Science, 14(5).

Atkins, David, Christos A. Makridis, Rachel Ramoni, Gil Alterovitz, and Carolyn Clancy. (2022). Developing and Implementing Predictive Models in a Learning Healthcare System: Traditional and Artificial Intelligence Approaches in the Veterans Health Administration. Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science, 5: 393-413.