Apostolos Serletis


Apostolos Serletis is a Greek economist who is a Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary.
Serletis was born in Greece in 1954. He earned his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Piraeus in 1976, his M.A. in Economics from the University of Windsor in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Economics from McMaster University in 1984. After graduating from McMaster, he became a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Calgary.

Personal life

Apostolos Serletis lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his wife Aglaia. He has a son Demitre Serletis who is a pediatrics and epilepsy surgeon at the University of Manitoba and a daughter Anna who is an interventional cardiologist in Calgary. He has four grandchildren.

Fields of interest

Apostolos Serletis has published more than 200 journal papers in top economics and finance journals such as: Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Econometric Reviews, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Open Economies Review, Economics Letters, Journal of Macroeconomics, etc.
His research draws from a large number of areas, such as macroeconomics, monetary economics, flexible functional forms and demand systems, and nonlinear and complex dynamics.
Serletis also Canadianized a number of leading U.S. text books, including Financial Markets and Institutions, The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach, and Principles of Economics.

Research Grants

Serletis received a number of research grants, a University of Calgary Research Fellowship in 2002, the Faculty of Arts Distinguished Research Award three times, and a University of Calgary Professorship from 2006-2011.

Text books

  1. The Theory of Monetary Aggregation, Barnett, William A. and Apostolos Serletis, Elsevier.
  2. Functional Structure Inference, Barnett, William A. and Apostolos Serletis, Elsevier.
  3. Money and the Economy, Serletis, Apostolos, World Scientific.
  4. Quantitative and Empirical Analysis of Energy Markets, Serletis Apostolos, World Scientific.
  5. Macroeconomic Policy in the Canadian Economy, Serletis Apostlos and Panos Afxentiou, Kluwer.
  6. Interfuel Substitution, Serletis ApostolosWorld Scientific.
  7. Oil Price Uncertainty, Serletis Apostolos, World Scientific.

    Professional Associations

He is a Charter Council member of the Society for Economic Measurement and Associate Editor of three academic journals: Energy Economics, Open Economies Review, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and the Journal of Economic Asymmetries. He has also edited a number of scholarly collections, including a special issue of the prestigious Journal of Econometrics with James Heckman, the 2000 Nobel Laureate of the University of Chicago.