Georgios KOURETAS

Full Professor of Banking and Finance | Affiliate Professor at ��ɫ��Ƶ Business School

��ɫ��Ƶ

http://www.aueb.gr/users/kouretas
Email: georgios.kouretas@ipag.fr

Education

1985-1988: Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Birmingham, U.K - Title of Thesis: Flexible Exchange Rates, Commercial and Macrostabilization Policies Under Alternative Wage-Setting Regimes.
1983-1985: Master of Arts in Economics (International Economics, Econometrics) from Wayne State University, U.S.A.
1981-1983: Master of Arts in Economics (Public Finance) from the University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
1977-1981: Graduate of the Economics Department of the University of Piraeus, Greece.

Biography
Selected publications
Professional experiences

Georgios P. Kouretas is currently Professor of Banking and Finance at the Department of Business Administration at the Athens University of Economics and Business and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair on European Economic Policy. He is Director of the Master of Business Administration-MBA programme (Sep. 2012-present). He has been Director of the Ph.D. Programme of the Department of Business Administration (Oct. 2008-Jan. 2014). He obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Piraeus (1981), M.A in Economics from the University of Notre Dame (1983), M.A. in Economics from Wayne State University (1985), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Birmingham (1988).

He has been a member of staff at the Department of Economics, University of Crete (1991-2007) and he has also been Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. Furthermore, he has been Research Fellow at Michigan State University (Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and NATO Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 1994-1995), the European University Institute, Florence (2000) and at the National Bank of Poland (June 2017). He has served as Director of the Centre of European Studies and Research at the University of Crete (November 2004-February 2006).

He has over 120 publications in refereed international journals and collective volumes, numerous contributions in international conferences, he has acted as referee for international journals in economics and finance and he has been co-organizer of several international conferences, workshops and summer schools. Invited speaker to many leading universities such as: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, London School of Economics, London Business School, Warwick Business School, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, European University Institute, University of Bern, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Luxemburg, Free University of Amsterdam as well as Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, National Bank of Poland and Central Bank of Cyprus. He has been the coordinator of the Human Capital Improvement Marie Curie Development Host Programme at the Department of Economics of the University of Crete (2000-2007) and he participates in a large number of European and Greek funded research projects. His main research interests are: Banking, International finance, European financial markets and monetary issues, international money and capital markets, open economy macroeconomics, portfolio management, financial management, applied econometrics and quantitative economic history.

Agoraki, M.-E., Kouretas, G. P. & Nadal de Simone, F. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on the Euro Area banks’ balance sheets, Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments, forthcoming.
Aslanidis, N., Christiansen, C., & Kouretas, G.P. (2024). The effects of high risk on international stock markets. Annals of Operations Research, forthcoming.
Agoraki, M.-E., Kouretas, G. P. & Nadal de Simone, F. (2024). The performance of the Euro Area banking system: the pandemic in perspective. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, forthcoming.
Bratis, Th., Kouretas, G.P., Laopodis, N.T., & Vlamis, P. (2024). The sovereign credit risk and the geopolitical risk during the EMU crisis. International Journal of Finance and Economics, forthcoming.
Agoraki, M.-E., Aslanidis, N., & Kouretas, G.P. (2023). How has COVID-19 affected the performance of green investment funds?, Journal of International Money and Finance, 131, 102792.
Agoraki, M.-E., Kardara, S., Kollintzas, T., & Kouretas, G.P. (2023). Debt-to-GDP ratio changes and the Great Recession: European periphery vs European core. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 28, 3299-3331.
Bratis, Th., Kouretas, G.P., Laopodis, N.T. (2023). CDS and equity markets’ volatility linkages: Lessons from the EMU crisis. Review of Quantitative, Finance and Accounting, 60, 1259-1281.
Agoraki, M.-E., Aslanidis, N., & Kouretas, G.P. (2022). U.S. Banks’ lending behaviour, financial stability, and investor sentiment: A textual analysis. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, 73-90.
“U.S. Bank IPOs and political money contribution”, Journal of Financial Stability, 2022, 62, (with M.-E. Agoraki and D. Gounopoulos).
“Monetary policy and long-term interest rate spreads dynamics: evidence from the Eurozone”, Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73, 1493-1515 (with Th. Bratis and N. T. Laopodis).

Professor Kouretas has an extensive experience as an instructor in professional training in all areas of Financial Management, Banking and Financial Institutions and Investment Appraisal and Evaluation. He is co-organizer of the internationally recognized for its high-quality Annual Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance and he is member of the scientific committees of numerous International Conferences on Finance and Banking. Furthermore, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Journal of Forecasting and Panoeconomicus and he has acted as guest editor for high quality international journals in economics and finance, European Economic Review, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Financial Stability, Economic Modelling, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Banking and Finance, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Review of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Open Economies Review and Journal of Common Market Studies.

Research Areas