Conferences

Deposit Flows and Perceived Climate Uncertainty, with Anastasiou, D., Ballis, A., Lakhal, F., and Guizani, A., accepted for presentation at the 6th Finance Economic Meeting (FEM 2025) conference, Paris, France, 15-17 December 2025.

Monetary Policy and SMEs' Growth Expectations, with Anastasiou, D., Bragoudakis, Z., and A. Karagiorgis (2025), accepted for presentation at the 6th Finance Economic Meeting (FEM 2025) conference, Paris, France, 15-17 December 2025.

US Elections and Stock Price Crash Risk, with Agoraki M., Anastasiou, D., Babalos, V., & Ballis, A.,(2025), accepted for presentation at the 6th Finance Economic Meeting (FEM 2025) conference, Paris, France, 15-17 December 2025.

Exploring the Interplay of Skewness and Kurtosis: Dynamics in Cryptocurrency Markets Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (Aug. 2025), with A. Karagiorgis, A. Ballis, and K. Drakos presented at the 1st International Conference on Applied Economics and Financial Issues (AEFI), Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Leveraging Grant Funding to Enhance SMEs Access to Finance Against Natural Disasters, with Vlassas, I., Anastasiou, D., Ballis, A. & Ftiti, Z. (2025), presented at the 8th Edition of the Ethical Finance & Sustainability in Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., May 2025.

Comprehensive Analysis of the Dynamic Relationship between ESG and Traditional Stock Market Indices, with E.Katsimicha & D. Dimitiou, presented at the SDSC-2025 Conference, December 6-8, Azerbaijan.

Financing Employment Decisions: Analysing the Effects of Discouraged Borrowers, with I. Vlassas and N. Giannakopoulos (2024), accepted for presentation at the 5th Finance Economic Meeting (FEM 2024) conference, Paris, France, 16-18 December 2024.

Discouraged Bank Borrowers and Natural Disasters, with D. Anastasiou, A. Ballis, and C. Chrysanthakopoulos, accepted for presentation at the 5th Financial Economics Meeting (FEM-2024), EDC Paris Business School, Paris, 16-18 December 2024.

The era of Digital Euro, 2nd International Conference, India-Greece: History, Society, Science & Entrepreneurship, Aristotle University, December 2-6, 2024.

Credit Rationing and Employment Decisions of Eurozone SMEs, with Vlassas I., and N. Giannakopoulos, accepted for presentation at the Wolpertinger 2024 Annual Conference, University of Palermo, Aug 2024.

Can Credit Rationing Impact Employment Decisions of Firms? with I. Vlassas, 2nd Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking (IFMB), Nottingham Business School, 17-18, January 2024.

Diverging communication and investors’ willingness to invest: Evidence from Eurozone firms, with D. Anastasiou, S. Giannoulakis, and S.I. Krokida, presented at the 4th Financial Economics Meeting (FEM-2023), EDC Paris Business School, June 2023.

Positive COVID-19 related Sentiment and Economic Uncertainty, with D. Anastasiou and A. Ballis, presented at the 2023 International Conference in Finance, Banking and Accounting (ICFBA), jointly organized by Montpellier Business School (France) and the University of Portsmouth School of Accounting, Economics and Finance (UK). September 2023.

Innovative Activity & Access to Finance: A Review of the Literature, with I. Vlassas in the 12th National Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society, Athens, December 2022.

Forensic accounting: A strategic tool to strengthen corporate governance against fraud, A.Xanthopoulou, P. Kalantonis and P. Arsenos. International online conference "Corporate Governance: An Interdisciplinary Outlook, Virtus Global Centre for Corporate Governance November 2022 (https://doi.org/10.22495/cgaiop7)

A note on Exchange Rate Modelling and Forecasting in Southeast Asia, with A. Aljandali, International Conference on Applied Business and Economics, ICABE October 2021.

“A new perspective in credit rationing for European SMEs” with P. Kalantonis in A. Kostyuk, M. J. C. Guedes, & D. Govorun (Eds.), Corporate Governance: Examining Key Challenges and Perspectives (pp. 222-224) (2020) International Conference in May 7, 2020 at Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG), Portugal.

“The Anatomy of Credit Rationing for European SMEs.” Financial Engineering and Banking Society (F.E.B.S.). University of West Attica, Athens, December 20-21, 2019.

“New Challenges in Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice” October 3-4, 2019 in Naples-Italy. Paper presentation: “Executive authorities in Euroland during the financial crisis. A comparison between European Commission and National Governments”, by C. Kallandranis and P. Kaldis.

Keynote Speaker in the Summer School of Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation during an economic crisis. TEI of Western Greece, Department of Business Administration. Presentation in Credit Rationing Issues for SMEs., June 2018

International Workshop on Risk Management, Financial Regulation, and Governance in Banking, University of Palermo: Determinants of Trust in Institutions, May 2016

1st International Virtual SBRLAB Conference “Finding Solutions for a post-crisis society”, 9-11 December 2015, Spain. Conference proceedings for the paper Economic Outcomes and Voting Behaviour: Evidence from Greece

INFER 2015. University of Bedfordshire. Economic Outcomes and Voting Behaviour: Evidence from Greece

GUIDE Association, Global Conference in Athens 2013. Assessing the Effect of Sentiment on Fiscally Induced Migration: A Tiebout Hypothesis Approach within EU 27.

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). "Counterterrorism Effectiveness: The Impact on Life and Property Losses," with Drakos K, and Giannakopoulos N., Brussels February 2012.

University of Crete 5th Annual Meeting of the EEFS. International Conference May 2006. “State-Dependent Response of Investment to Cash Flow: Evidence for Asymmetry in European Manufacturing”.

HE.W.P.E.M, University of Patras: Hellenic Workshop on Productivity & Efficiency Measurement, Patras 2006. “Investment and Cash Flow under Imperfect Capital Markets.”

“Université d' Orléans- France Conference July 2005. “State-Dependent Response of Investment to Cash Flow: Evidence for Asymmetry in European Manufacturing”.

4th Annual Conference of Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association (HFAA), Pireaus, December 2005

3rd Annual Conference of Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association (HFAA), Athens, December 2004

57th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Lisbon, Portugal March 2004. Kostas Drakos and Christos Kallandranis, “Corporate Dividend Policy of Greek Listed Firms: Sectoral and Temporal Dynamics.”