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Keynote speakers

Thursday, June 21, 2012

 Day 1

9:00 - 9:30

  Registration

9:30 - 9:45

  Welcome

9:45 - 11:45

  Session 1:Human Capital/ Labor Markets

Chair: N. Benos

 Session 2:Business and Investments

Chair: A. Lapatinas

• S. Dimelis,S. Papaioannou: "The impact of human capital on technical inefficiency: a stochastic frontier analysis across industries of the Greek economy"

• I. Ourdev:
  "Selection of short-term investment vehicles"

• K. Drivas, Z. Lei, B. Wright:
  "The Role of Exclusive Licensing in Diffusion of Academic Patented Inventions"
  

• G. Bonazzi, M. Iotti:
  "Interest coverage ratios: accrual and cash based approaches in the dairy sector in Italy"

• N. Miaouli, T. Kazanas:"Optimal wages and capital stock in unionised markets: evidence from  South Europe"

• A. Episcopos, P. Skartados:
  "Voting rights and firm performance during the South European debt crisis"

• M. Diakomihalis:
  "Accounting for Education: The conceptual framework and empirical assessment of economic flows"

• A. Lapatinas:
  "Multinational versus national firms on labour adjustment costs: a structural approach"

• D. Berberoglou, E. Pappa, E. Vella:
  "Government Consumption, Investment, or Employment to Boost the Economy? There is no Trilemma"

• N. Benos, T. Bassetti, S. Karagiannis:
  "Urbanization and heart risk: a counterfactual analysis"

11:45 - 12:15

 Coffee Break

12:15 - 13:30

 Plenary Speech 1

Chair: S. Symeonides

• C. Azariadis:
  "Credit crunches as Markov equilibria"

13:30 - 15:00

  Lunch

15:00 - 17:30

 Session 3: Growth

Chair: C. Angyridis

  Session 4: Applied Economics I

Chair:Y. Goletsis

• T. Akar, G. Akar, M. Alagöz
  "The relationship between R&Dexpenses and economic growth of European Union, Turkey and Greece"

• V. Manoussi, A. Xepapadeas:
  "Mitigation and Solar Radiation Management in Climate Change Policies"

• C. Agiakloglou, S. Karkalakos, A. Tsimpanos:
  "Entrepreneurship  and  Growth: Variation in European Regional Levels"

• I. Kalaitzoglou, I. Maher:
  "Autoregressive Conditional Weighted Duration: How Does the European Carbon Market React Towards Trading Intensity fluctuations and OTC Transactions?"

• P. Prodromidis:
  "The evolution of personal incomes across Greece: 2001-2008"

• Ç. Vural Yavas:
  "Financial risk tolerance"

• T. Efthimiadis,  P. Tsintzos:
  "The Internal-External Debt Ratio and Growth"

• S. Anyfantaki, A. Demos:
  "Estimation and Properties of a Time-Varying EGARCH(1,1)-M Model"

• M. Iosifidi, S. Jafarey:
  "The role of taxation in a Ramsey model with environmental externalities"

• D. Matesanz, G. Ortega, B. Torgler:
  "Synchronization and diversity in business cycles. A network approach applied to the European Union"

• C. Angyridis:
  "Optimal Fiscal Policy and Endogenous Growth"

• S. B. Alagöz, N. Ekici:
  "Product placement practices in leisure industry"

Gala dinner will follow at 9 p.m.

Friday, June 22, 2012

 Day 2

9:30 - 11:45

 Session 5: Markets and Strategies

Chair:  D. Panagiotou

 Session 6: Economic Policies

Chair:  G. Panos

• T. Shahor:
  "The impact of inflation on the market power of individual firms that are members of the cartel"

• A. Adam, P. Kammas:
  "Voting rights for all? The effects of early democratization on the quality of institutions"

• P. Lekeas, G. Stamatopoulos:
  "Cooperative oligopoly games with boundedly rational firms"

• D. Hatzinikolaou, A. Tsoka:
  "Quality of institutions and the pay-as-you-go pension system: an econometric analysis using panel data from 11 OECD countries"

• C. Christou, K. Papadopoulos:
  "The Countervailing Power Hypothesis in Size-Polarized Markets"

• A. Philippopoulos, P. Varthalitis, V. Vassilatos:
  "The optimal mix of  monetary and policy  actions"

• D. Kesavayuth, C. Manasakis, V. Zikos:
  "Upstream R&D networks"

• D. Dimitriou and T. Simos:
  "Testing Purchasing Power Parity for Japan and USA: Further evidence based on structural breaks analysis"

• L. Klapper, A. Lusardi, G. Panos
  "Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis"

11:45 - 12:15

  Coffee Break

 Plenary Speech 1

Chair: E. Koumanakos

• O. AlKhazali:
  "Islamic Banking and Finance and Global Financial Crises"

13:30 - 15:00

Lunch

15:00 - 17:30

 Session 7: Applied Economics II

Chair:  P. Kammas

 Session 8: Applied Finance

Chair:  S. Fountas

• J. Bos, C. Economidou, M. Sanders:
  "Why Exporting Matters"

• M. Gaila, V. Vassiliadis, N. Kondakis, G. Dounias:
  "Genetic Programming-based trading system: An application on the NASDAQ 100 stock index"

• T. Bassetti, F. Pavesi
  "Deep Pockets, Extreme Preferences: Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Contributions "

• M.  Doman, R. Doman:
  "The changing pattern of currency co-movement: a three-regime Markov switching copula approach"

• A. Gkoulgkoutsika, C. Katrakilidis, E. Tsanana:
  "Keynes or Wagner? Evidence from panel cointegration tests"

• S. Papadamou, C. Siriopoulos
  "Interest Rate Risk and the Creation of the Monetary Policy Committee: Evidence from Banks’ and Life Insurance Companies’ stocks in the UK"

• C. Katrakilidis, E. Trachanas, E. Tsanana:
  "Budget deficit sustainability and the revenue-expenditure nexus: New empirical evidence from Italy, Greece and Spain"

• G. Bampinas, S. Fountas, T. Panagiotidis:
  "The day-of-the-week effect is weak: evidence from the European Real Estate Sector"

• P. Kammas, A. Litina, T. Palivos:
  "Public Versus Private Education: Is There a Role for Institutions?"

 End of Meeting

 Note:

PLENARY SESSIONS and SESSIONS 1, 3, 5 and 7 take place at the Auditorium.
SESSIONS 2, 4, 6 and 8 take place at HALL A