Theodore Papageorgiou is the Felter Family Associate Professor of Economics at Boston College. His main research interests are in labor economics, macroeconomics, as well as the economics of transportation.

In 2022, his article “Geography, Transportation, and Endogenous Trade Costs,” (joint with Giulia Brancaccio and Myrto Kalouptsidi) won the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, for the best applied (empirical or theoretical) paper published in Econometrica during the previous four years.

Papageorgiou received his BA from the University of Athens and his PhD from Yale University. Prior to joining Boston College, Theodore was on the faculty at McGill University and Penn State University and has held visiting positions at Harvard University and Princeton University.