Publications

Submitted in refereed Journals

1. Koutsouradis, G., A Tsekouras K and Kounetas, K, (2025). "A  configurational approach to eco-innovation and innovation performance relationship: Does size matter?"R&D Management (forthcoming) (Impact factor:5.7  5-Year Impact Factor: 6.1, 3*ABS- SCI_Q1) .

2. Tyllianakis E., Rigas, N and Kounetas, K., (2025). The Impact of Announcing a Payment Assistance Program on UK Household Water Consumption: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis. Utilities Policy, 96, 101981. (Impact factor:6.8 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.8, 1*ABS- SCI_Q1) .

3. Tsekouras, K., Stergiou, E.,  and Kounetas, K., (2024). Innovation, productive performance and undesirable outputs across European regions: Are there any missing links?  Journal of Environmental Management, 367, 122053. )Impact factor:7.6 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.647, 3*ABS- ABCD A*) .

4. Chatzistamoulou N., Tsekouras K and Kounetas, K, (2024). "Knowledge flows in Data Envelopment Analysis. The role of peer effects ". OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science (accepted). (Impact factor: 8.673  5-Year Impact Factor: 6.9, 3*ABS- ABCD A*).

5. N.Rigas, S., Capasso and Κ. Tsekouras and Kounetas, K, (2024). "European firms productivity growth and environmental regulation. Re-examining the Porter hypothesis". Journal of Environmental Management 368, 122078(Impact factor:7.6 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.647, 3*ABS- ABCD A*) .

6. Ferrara, G., and Kounetas, K., (2024). "US banks efficiency after global financial crisis: transient and persistent decomposition". North American Journal of Economics and Finance. (Impact factor: 3.136  5-Year Impact Factor: 2.659, 2*ABS- ABCD B*).

7. Rigas, N., and Kounetas, K., (2024). "The Impact of CO2 Emissions and Climate on Economic Growth and Productivity: International Evidence". Review of Development Economics,28, 719-740 (Impact factor: 1.78 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.38, 2*ABS- ABCD B*).

8. Capasso, S., Kaisari, M., Kounetas, K., and Lainas, E., (2024). Shools’ productive performance and technology gaps. New evidence for OECD countries using PISA 2018  131,106602. Economic Modelling, (Impact factor:1.463 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.787, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

9. Arbolino, R., Boffardi, M., Marani, U., Napolitano, O., and Kounetas K.,  (2024).  An interpretative analysis of M&A transactions in Italian banking sector.  Economies 12(3), 58-76, (Impact Factor: 3.68; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.7,1*ABS)

10. Stergiou, E., Rigas, N., Ferrara, G., Mantzari, E., & Kounetas, K. (2024). National Environmental Taxes and Industrial Waste in Countries across Europe. Energies, 17(10), 2411.(Impact Factor: 3.2; 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.7,1*ABS)

11. Kounetas, K., Napolitano, O. Spagnolo, N and Foresti, P., (2023). The impact of Energy, Renewable and CO2 efficiency on Countries'Productivity.  Energy Economics Vol. 12 106795, (Impact factor:2.344 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.913, 3*ABS- ABCD A*).

12. Rigas, N., Stergiou, E and Kounetas, K., (2023). Environmental productivity growth across European industries. Energy Economics Vol 23, 106707, (Impact factor:2.344 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.913, 3*ABS- ABCD A*).

13. Chatzistamoulou N.,, and Kounetas K., (2023) Tracing Green Growth through Industrial Resource Efficiency Patterns: the role of competitiveness and clean technologies. Managerial and Decision Economics (accepted),Impact factor:1.379 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.23, 2*ABS- ABCD B*).

14. Kounetas, K., and Andriakopoulos, K., (2023). "Large lending and banks performance. Is there any relationship? Empirical evidence from U.S.A Banks". Bulletin of Economic Research, 75: 688-716 (Impact factor: 0.881 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.024, 2* ABS- ABCD A).

15. Stergiou E, Rigas, N., Zaroutieri, E and Kounetas, K., (2023). "Energy, renewable and technical efficiency convergence: A global evidence". Economic Change and Restructuring, 56,  1601–1628 .(Impact factor: 1.803-Year Impact Factor: 1.708, 1*ABS - ABCD B*) .

16. Androulakis, G., Kaisari, M., Kounetas K., and Manousakis, G., (2023). Educational reforms and secondary schools’ efficiency performance in Greece. A bootstrap DEA and  multilevel approach. Operational research Journal, 23 (9). (Impact factor: 2.41-Year Impact Factor: 2.425, 1*ABS - ABCD C*) .

17. Diagourtas, G., Simaki., V and Kounetas, K., (2023).Consumer attitudes and sociodemographic profile in purchasing organic food products: Evidence from a Greek and Swedish survey. British food Journal Vol. 125 No. 7, pp. 2407-2423.(Impact factor: 2. 518-Year Impact Factor: 2.593, 1*ABS - ABCD ).

18. Stergiou E, and Kounetas, K., (2022). "Heterogeneity, spillovers and eco-efficiency of European industries under different pollutants’ scenarios. Is there a definite direction? " Ecological Economics, Vol 195, 107377. (Impact factor: 5.389-Year Impact Factor: 5.424, 3*ABS - ABCD A*) .

19. Burger, M., Kounetas, K.,Napolitano, O., Stavropoulos, S., (2022). "Do innovation and human capital actually narrow the technology gap? Champions and laggards of European regional productive performance ?" Regional Studies, 56 (10), 1655-1670. (Impact factor: 6.9 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.9577, 4*ABS - ABCD A*) .

20. Dimakopoulou A., Chatzistamoulou N., Tsekouras K and Kounetas K., (2022). Environmental innovation and R&D collaborations. Firm decisions in the innovation efficiency context. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1-30 .(Impact factor: 5.337-Year Impact Factor: 6.320, 3*ABS - ABCD A) .

21. Tsekouras, K.,Chatzistamoulou, N., and Kounetas, K., (2022). Technological hierarchies and learning: spillovers, complexity, relatedness and the moderative role of absorptive capacity . Technological Forecasting and Social Change , Vol 183, 121925. (Impact factor:10.884 5-Year Impact Factor:8.114, 3* ABS- ABCD A).

22. Antonakis, T., Chatzistamoulou, N., and Kounetas, K., (2022). "Salary cap and NBA teams' performance. A two stage DEA under a metatechnology framework ". Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 23(2) 123-155 (Impact factor: 1.615 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.527  2*ABS-ABCD A) .

23. Stergiou E., and Kounetas, K., (2021). " Eco-efficiency convergence and technology spillovers of European industries. " Journal of Environmental Management, 283 (1)Impact factor:7.6 5-Year Impact Factor: 5.647, 3*ABS- ABCD A) .

24. Kounetas, K., Polemis, M., and  Tzeremes, Ν. (2021). “Measurement of eco-efficiency and convergence: Evidence from a non-parametric frontier analysis .”European Journal of Operational Research, 291(1), 365-378. (Impact factor:3.428 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.960, 4*ABS- ABCD A*)

25. Stergiou E, and Kounetas, K., (2021). "European industries' energy efficiency under different technological regimes. The role of CO2 emissions, climate, path dependence and  energy mix". The Energy Journal, 42 (1). (Impact factor:2.456 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.739, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

26. Batsidis, A., Economou, P., and  Kounetas, K., (2020). "Evaluation of the OECD's prediction algorithm for the annual GPD growth rate".Communications in Statistics-Case Studies and Data Analysis 1-21. (ABCD B).

27. Bonasia, M and Napolitano, O., Kounetas, K., (2020)" Assessment of regional productive performance of European health systems under a metatechnology framework" Economic Modelling, 84, 234-248 (Impact factor:1.463 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.787, 2*ABS- ABCD A*)

28. Economou, P., Malefaki S., and Kounetas, K., (2020). A Metafrontier Production Function for a Bayesian frontier model: A cross-country Comparison , Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, 1-24 9ABCD B).

29. Kounetas, K.,and Zervopoulos, P., (2019)."A cross-country evaluation of environmental performance: Is there a convergence-divergence pattern in technology gaps? " European Journal of Operational Research, 273 (3), 1136-1148. (Impact factor:3.428 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.960, 4*ABS- ABCD A*)

30. Chatzistamoulou, N., Tsekouras, K., and Kounetas, K (2019) "Energy Efficiency, Productive Performance and Heterogeneous Competitiveness Regimes. Does the Dichotomy Matter?" Energy Economics, 81, 687-697. (Impact factor:2.344 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.913, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

31. Colesnic, O., Kounetas, K., and Polemis, M., (2019)."Estimating risk efficiency in Middle East banks before and after the crisis.A Metafrontier framework." Global Finance Journal https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2019.100484 (Impact factor:0.99 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.69, 2*ABS- ABCD B)

32. Gkypali, A., Tsekouras, K., and Kounetas, K.,(2019)."European countries? competitiveness and productive performance evolution: unraveling the complexity in a heterogeneity context".Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 29 (2), 665-695.(Impact factor:1.095, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

33. Kounetas, K.,(2018).“Energy consumption and CO2 emissions convergence in European Union member countries.A tonneau des Danaides?"Energy Economics, 69, 111–127.(Impact factor:2.344 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.913, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

34. Alexopoulos, E., Tzelepis, D., and Kounetas, K., (2018). "Environmental and Financial Performance. Is there a win-win or a win-loss situation? Evidence from the Greek manufacturing". Journal of Cleaner Production, 179(1), 1275-1283.(Impact factor:5.561 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.352, 2*ABS)

35. Napolitano, O.,  Pietroluongo, M., and  Kounetas, K., (2018)."Stochastic Convergence or Divergence of Total Factor productivity of Italian Regions. Re-examing the Evidence" Economics Bulletin, 38(4), 1857-1863 (ABCD C).

36. Kounetas, K., and Napolitano, N., (2018). “Modelling the incidence of International Trade on Italian Regional productive efficiency using a metafrontier DEA approach”Economic Modelling,69, 71-58 (Impact factor:1.463 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.787, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

37. Tsekouras, K.,Chatzistamoulou, N., and Kounetas, K., (2017). "Productive Performance, Technology Heterogeneity and Hierarchies: Who to compare with whom". International Journal of Production Economics 193, 465-478. (Impact factor:3.493 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.093, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

38. Chatzistamoulou, N., Diagourtas, G., and Kounetas, K.,(2017). “Pollution Abatement and Productivity Growth: The case of Greek Manufacturing Sectors”. Enviromental Economics and Policy Studies 17(1), 15-34.(Indexed by ISI,1* ABS- ABCD C)

39. Mitropoulos, P., Kounetas, K., and Mitropoulos, I., (2016)."Factors affecting primary health care centers' economic and production efficiency". Annals of Operational Research 247 (2),  807-822 (Impact factor:1,217 3* ABS- ABCD A)

40. Tsekouras, K.,Chatzistamoulou, N., Broadstock, D., and Kounetas, K., (2015). “Technological Spillovers and Path dependence of European Transportation Productive Performance under Technology Heterogeneity”.Technological forecasting and Social Change 102, 261-274 (Impact factor:10.884 5-Year Impact Factor: 8.114, 3* ABS- ABCD A)

41. Kounetas, K., (2015), "Heterogeneous technologies, strategic groups and environmental efficiency technology gaps for European countries” Energy Policy 83, 277-287 (Impact factor:2.077-Year Impact Factor: 3.394, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

42. Kounetas, K., (2014), “Did Euro 2004 victory improves Greek football clubs’ performance? A bootstrap approach”, Central European Journal of Operational Research 22 (4), 623–645 (Impact factor:0.484 5-Year Impact Factor:-,1* ABS- ABCD C )

43. Kounetas, K., and Papathanassopoulos, F.,(2013) “How efficient are the Greek Hospitals. A case study using a double bootstrap DEA approach”, European Journal of Health Economics  14(6) 979-994. (Impact factor:2.095 5-Year Impact Factor:-, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

44. Papathanasopoulos, F., Skuras and Kounetas, K., (2013), "Medical equipment adoption in Greek Hospitals. The case of CT Scanners". Journal of Management Health 15(2) 157-167. (Indexed by ISI).

45. Kontolaimou, A., Mourtos, I., Kounetas, K., and  Tsekouras,K.,(2012), “Technology Gaps in European Banking. Put the blame on inputs or outputs”, Economic Modelling 29, 1798-1808 (Impact factor:1.463 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.787, 2*ABS-ABCD A)

46. Kounetas, K., I. Mourtos and K.D. Tsekouras. (2012), “Is Energy Intensity Important for the Productivity Growth of EET adopters?”, Energy Economics  34, 930-941 (Impact factor:2.344 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.913, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

47. Alexopoulos, I., Kounetas, K., and Tzelepis, D., (2012), “Environmental Performance and Technical Efficiency, is there a link? The case of Greek ASE firms”, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 61 (1), 6-23.  (Indexed by ISI, 1*ABS-ABCD B)

48. Kounetas K., Skuras, D., and Tsekouras K., (2011), “Promoting energy efficiency policies over the information barrier”, Information Economics and Policy 23(1), 72-84. (Impact factor:0.947 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.129, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

49. Kounetas, K., Athanasiou, A., Mitropoulos, P., and Mitropoulos, I., (2011) “Efficiency Differences of a Typical Greek University: An Application of a DEA and Tobit Analysis”, International Transactions of Operational Research 18 (5), 545-559. (Impact factor:0.648 5-Year Impact Factor:-, 2*ABS- ABCD B)

50. Tsekouras, K., Papathanassopoulos, F., Pappous, G., and Kounetas, K., (2010) "Does the Adoption of New Medical Technology boost Productive Efficiency? The case of the Greek ICUs system". International Journal of Production Economics 128(1), 427-433. (Impact factor:3.493 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.093, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

51. Kounetas K., and Tsekouras K., (2009), “Are Energy Efficient Technologies Efficient?” Economic Modelling 27 (1), 274-283. (Impact factor:1.463 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.787, 2*ABS- ABCD A)

52. Kounetas, K., Mourtos, Ι., and K.D. Tsekouras. (2009). “Efficiency decompositions for Heterogeneous Technologies”, European Journal of Operational Research  99, 209-218. (Impact factor:3.428 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.960, 4*ABS- ABCD A*)

53. Kounetas K., and Tsekouras K., (2008), “The Energy Efficiency Paradox Revisited through a Partial Observability Approach”, Energy Economics 30, 2517-2536. (Impact factor:2.158 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.512, 3*ABS- ABCD A*)

54. Kounetas K., and Tsekouras, K., (2007),  “Measuring Scale Efficiency Change Using a Translog Distance Function”, Int. Journal of Business and Economics 6(1),63-69 (Indexed by ISI-ABDC B)

55. A., Anastasiou,  Kounetas, K., P. Mitropoulos, and Y. Mitropoulos., (2007), “Evaluating Efficiency of University Academic Departments”, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics 10 (3), 409-431. (Indexed by ISI)

56. A., Anastasiou,  Kounetas,K., P. Mitropoulos, and Y. Mitropoulos., (2005), “The role of geographic origins in developing marketing strategies”, Archive of Economic History  17(1), 119-139. (Indexed by ISI)