Research
Main Publications
Economics and Applied Econometrics
1.The Effect of the Exposure to Refugees on Crime Activity. Evidence from the Greek Islands (with R. Megalokonomou), Forthcoming European Economic Review.
2. Stochastic petropolitics: The dynamics of institutions in resource-dependent economies (2020), (with R.Boucekkine, F.Prieur, B. Zou). European Economic Review, 131, 103610.
3. Birthplace diversity and economic growth: Evidence from the US states in the Post-World War II Period. (2020)(with F. Docquier, R. Turati, J. Valette), Journal of Economic Geography 20(2), 321-354.
4.Reap what you sow: Agricultural Technology, Urbanization, and Structural Change", Research Policy, (2019) (with D. McGowan)
5. Massive Migration and Elections: Evidence from the Refugee Crisis in Greece.(2018) International Migration , vol.58 pp.28-43
6. Does Talent Migration increase Inequality? A quantitative assessment in Football Labour Market. 2017 Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ,85 pp.150-166. web appendix
7.Fighting poverty and child malnutrition: on the design of foreign aid policies, (2017). Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1-22.
8. International Migration and the Propagation of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, (2014). Journal of Health Economics, 35,pp.20-33.(with F. Docquier and D. Tamfutu Munsi).
9.The social economic impact of AIDS: Accounting for intergenerational transmission, productivity and fertility,(2012)., Economic Modelling, 29,No.2, pp.369-381.
Accounting and Finance
1.Bank regulations and surges and stops in credit: Panel Evidence (with J. Thornton) Journal of Financial stability, 67, August 2023, 101134.
2. Do fiscal rules reduce government borrowing costs in developing countries? (2019) (with J.Thornton) International Journal of Finance and Economics. ; 1–12.
3. Negative policy interest rates and exchange rate behavior:Further results. (2019), Finance Research Letters, 29,pp.61-67 (with J.Thornton)
4. Fiscal rules and government borrowing costs: international evidence. (2018) Economic Inquiry ,56, pp.446-459 (with J.Thornton).
5. How should we estimate value-relevance models? Insights from European data, (2017), British Accounting Review , 49,pp.460-473.( with E.Onali and G.Ginesti)
6. The impact of fiscal rules on sovereign risk premia: International evidence. (2017), Finance Research Letters 20(2),pp.63-67 (with J.Thornton)
7. Inflation targeting and the cyclicality of monetary policy. (2017), Finance Research Letters 20(2), pp.296-302 (with J.Thornton)
8. Does inflation targeting reduce sovereign risk?, (2016) Finance Research Letters 18(8),pp.237-241 (with J.Thornton).
9. Liquidity, Volume and Dividend Yields in Stock Return Data: Evidence from London Stock Exchange, 2010.International Journal of Financial Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 79-88 (with A.Samitas).
Big data and predictive analytics
2. Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data, (with K. Nikolopoulos and C.Tsinopoulos) Journal of the Operational Research Society June 2021
74(2):1-2.
3. Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions, (with K. Nikolopoulos, S.Punia, Ch.Tsinopoulos, A. Schafers) European Journal of Operation Research, 290, Issue 1, 1 April 2021, Pages 99-115.
4. Protecting the Mental Health of Future Adults: Disentangling the Determinants of Adolescent Bullying Victimisation (with GM Chrysanthou) Social Science and Medicine, 253, May 2020, 112942.
5. Recursive predictive tests for structural change of long-memory ARFIMA processes with unknown break points,(2013) Economics Letters, 118(2), pages 389-392 (with S.H.Wang).