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 2012/2013

• MN4223 International Banking
• 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 the accuracy of equity premium predictions?". (with D. Andriosopoulos and F.I. Papadimitriou).

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

Conference Presentations

Can the Information Content of Share Repurchases Improve the Accuracy of Equity Premium Predictions?

• 2012 FMA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 17-20 October 2012.
• 19^th Multinational Finance Society (MFS) Annual Conference, Krakow, Poland, 24-27 June 2012.
• 4^th International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) Conference, Valencia, Spain, 18-20 June 2012.
• 48^th British Finance and Accounting Association (BAFA) Annual Conference, Brighton, UK, 17-19 April 2012.

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

• 7^th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Fox Business School, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 10-12 July 2009.
• 16^th Annual Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Crete, Greece, 28 June - 1 July 2009.
• 7^th Annual Hellenic Finance & Accounting Association Conference, Crete, Greece, 12-13 December 2008.
• 1^st International Conference on Computational & Financial Econometrics, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-22 April 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, 14-15 November 2009.
• The Wolpertinger Conference, University of Rome III, Rome, Italy, 2-5 September 2009.

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

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