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Dr Dimitris Chronopoulos

Dr Dimitris Chronopoulos

BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Science Sub-Honours Adviser
Director, MLitt in Finance and Management

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0)1334 461963
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462812

Teaching 2011/2012

  • MN5604 Financial Systems.
  • MN5612 Portfolio Management and Investments.

Biography

Dimitris joined the School of Management in September 2010 as a lecturer in banking and finance. Prior to this he was a lecturer at Keele University, Economics Department where he taught courses on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Dimitris gained his PhD from the University of Essex, where he was also a teaching assistant.

Research Interests

Dimitris' research interests are in the following areas: Banking, Productivity, Empirical Asset Pricing, Mergers & Acquisitions. 

Publications

How do stock markets in the US and Europe price efficiency gains from bank M&As? (with C. Girardone and J.C. Nankervis), Journal of Financial Services Research, forthcoming.

Are There Any Cost and Profit Efficiency Gains in Financial Conglomeration? Evidence from the Accession Countries, 2011, European Journal of Finance 17(8): 603-621. (with C. Girardone and J.C. Nankervis).

Working Papers

Can the information content of share repurchases improve out-of-sample predictive performance? (with D. Andriosopoulos and F.I. Papadimitriou).

The dynamics of US bank profitability. (with F.J. McMillan and J.O.S. Wilson).

Conference Presentations

Double Bootstrap Confidence Intervals in the Two-Stage DEA Approach.

  • 7th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Fox Business School, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, July 10-12, 2009.
  • 16th Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Crete, Greece, June 28- July 1, 2009.
  • 7th Annual Hellenic Finance & Accounting Association Conference, Crete, Greece December 12-13, 2008.
  • 1st International Conference on Computational & Financial Econometrics, Geneva, Switzerland April 20-22, 2007.

Are Cost and Profit Efficiencies Arising from Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Priced in Stock Markets?

  • 2009 UKEPAN Finance Conference, Leicester School of Management, University of Leicester, UK, November 14-15, 2009.
  • The Wolpertinger Conference, University of Rome III, Rome, Italy, September 2-5, 2009.

The Productive Efficiency of Financial Conglomerates: Evidence from the Accession Countries.

  • The Wolpertinger Conference, Bangor University, Bangor, UK, September 8-12, 2010.
  • 3rd Hellenic Workshop on Productivity & Efficiency Measurement, University of Patras, Patra, Greece, June 16-18, 2006.