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Who am I?

My name is Menelaos Tasiou, and I am a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the Surrey Business School. I hold a BSc in Economics from the University of Crete (Greece), a MSc in Banking & Finance from Surrey Business School, and a PhD in Economics & Finance from Portsmouth Business School.   

About my research

My research lies in the intersection of management science, decision analysis and finance, and appears in leading international outlets such as the European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, the British Journal of Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics. I am Associate Editor of the Decisions in Economics and Finance journal, and have served as Guest Editor for issues appearing in the Annals of Operations Research, and the Journal of Forecasting.     

My expertise centres on quantitative modelling of decision-making. This includes areas, such as decision analysis and performance or efficiency benchmarking. I work with a range of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence methods, which are adaptable to various practical contexts in finance and banking.  My previous work in this area has been applied to a variety of issues, such as the development of support tools for internal bank modelling, credit scoring, and sustainability benchmarking.      

Decision-making, however, is -in Keynes terms- susceptible to “animal spirits”. My empirical research investigates how socio-cultural traits, serving as proxies for collective manifested behavioural attributes that systematically deviate from rational decision-making models, affect corporate outcomes. These include risk-taking, default propensity, use of collateral, and lending corruption, among others.