Georgios Kouretas

Visiting Professor of Finance

Georgios P. Kouretas is currently a 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 a Visiting Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance, School of Business, Stetson University (2024-2025).

  • PhD, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • MA, Wayne State University
  • MA, University of Notre Dame
  • BA, University of Piraeus, Greece

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Georgios Kouretas

Biography

Georgios P. Kouretas is currently a 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 has served as  Director of the Master of Business Administration-MBA program (Sep. 2012-present). He has been Director of the Ph.D. Program of the Department of Business Administration (Oct. 2008-Jan. 2014). He obtained a B.A. in Economics from the University of Piraeus (1981), MA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame (1983), an MA 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 a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. Furthermore, he has been a 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 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 to international conferences, has acted as a referee for international journals in economics and finance and has been co-organizer of several international conferences, workshops and summer schools. Invited speaker to many leading universities such as the 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.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Banking and Finance

Course Sampling

  • Money and Fixed Income Securities Markets
  • Corporate Finance
  • Investments and Portfolio Management
  • Money and Banking

  • Corporate Finance
  • International Finance
  • Financial Markets and Institutions
  • Banking
  • Monetary Policy
  • Geopolitical Risks

  • 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, 29, 3692-3712.
  • 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.
  • Agoraki, M.-E., Kouretas, G.P., & Laopodis, N.T. (2022). U.S. Bank IPOs and political money contribution. Journal of Financial Stability, 62, 101058.  
  • Bratis, Th., Kouretas, G.P., & Laopodis, N.T., (2021). Monetary policy and long-term interest rate spreads dynamics: evidence from the Eurozone. Oxford Economic Papers, 73, 1493-1515.