Konstantinos G. PAPADOPOULOS

October 7, 2024

CURRENT POSITION

 Associate Professor, Microeconomic Theory and Policy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece

Associate Member of the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences, CEREB, of the University of Erfurt, Germany

Affiliated Member of CRENoS

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2023 Visiting Researcher, University of Sassari, Sardegna

2018 – 2019 Visiting Researcher, DAAD scholar, Applied Microeconomics Chair, Erfurt University, Germany

2018 – 2019 Visiting Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece

2010 – 2011 Visiting Researcher, Microeconomics Chair, Freie Universität zu Berlin, Germany

2014 – 2023 Assistant Professor with tenure, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece

2009 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece

2002 – 2009 Lecturer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Faculty of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, Department of Economics, Thessaloniki, Greece

ACADEMIC STUDIES

• Ph.D Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, CORE, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics,  Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 2000, Title: “Imperfectly Competitive Incomplete Asset Markets” (advisor H. Polemarchakis)
• European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics , 2000, (visiting DELTA-Paris, host CORE)
• MA Economics, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Department of Economics, Louvain-la-Neuve, with distinction, 1995
• Diploma in Economics (Ptychio), Department of Economics, AUTH, 1994

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Industrial Organization, Strategic Market Games, General Equilibrium, International Economics

PUBLICATIONS

1. “On the Equivalence of Foreign Exchange Market Structures” in Frontiers of Dynamic Games, Springer 2024
2. “Advantageous Symmetric Cross-Ownership and Mergers” Economics Letters, vol 220, (2022)
3. The Ambiguous Competitive Effects of Passive Partial Forward Integration (with E.Petrakis and E. Skartados), Southern Economic Journal, pp. 1-29, (2022),
4. ” Cartel Reporting under Passive Common Ownership” (with K. Charistos),  Economics Letters, vol 216,  pp. 22-25 (2022)
5. “Anticompetitive Effects of Partial Cross-Ownership: Experimental Evidence“, (with Hariskos W. and M. Koenigstein),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 193, pp. 399-409, (January 2022).
6. “Product Innovation Transfer under Passive Partial Ownership Holdings“, (with E. Petrakis and P.Skartados),  Economics Letters, vol 177,  pp. 22-25 (2019)
7. “Countervailing Power with Large and Small Retailers” (with G. Geronikolaou),  in: Frontiers of Dynamic Games, Static & Dynamic Game Theory: Foundations & Applications, Springer 2018
8. ” The Countervailing Power Hypothesis in the Dominant Firm – Competitive Fringe Model” , (with Ch. Christou), Economics Letters, vol 126, pp. 110-113 (2015)
9. “A Strategic Market Game of Carry Trades and Equilibrium Profits“,  (with L. Koutsougeras), The Manchester School, vol 79, 3, pp. 528-541 (2011)
10. “A Note on the Role of Exit Horizon in the Selection of Projects in Venture Capital Finance” (with G. Geronikolaou), International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, Issue 24, pp. 131-137 (2009)
11.  “Purchasing Power Parity with Strategic Markets“, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 16. (2008) 
12. “Arbitrage and Equilibrium in Strategic Securities Markets” (with L. Koutsougeras), Economic Theory, 23, 553–568 (2004). 
13.  “Impossibility of Risk Sharing in an Economy with Asymmetric Information“, Ekonomia, Vol 7, No 1, Summer (2004) (download here)

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Common Ownership unpacked“, (with Olga Chiapinelli and Dimitrios Xefteris)

” Optimal Licensing Sequences across Asymmetric Firms”

“Countervailing Power in a Vertical Market Experiment“, (with M.Koenigstein )

CONFERENCES (2006-  )

• CRETE2024, 22th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, Milos, Greece, July 10-14, 2024
• OLIGO2024, 12th Annual Workshop organized by the Oligo Society, 6-8 June 2024, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece
• IBEO 2024, XIII IBEO Workshop 2024, Climate Change and Public Policy, 19-21 June, Corte, France
• SAET2023, 22nd annual SAET Conference, 17-22 July, Paris, France, The Society of the Advancement of Economic Theory
• AMEF2023, 7th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, April 10-11, 2023, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
• ASSET2022, 43nd Annual Conference of Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, 29-29 October, University of Crete, Rethymno
• CRETE2022, 20th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, Tinos, July 11-15, 2022
• GTA2022, The International Conference “Game Theory and Applications” April 6-14 July, 2022, (virtual) Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
• XXX EWET 2022, 30^th European Workshop on Economic Theory, 7-9 July 2022, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
• CEAFE/MWET 2022,  8^th Mediterranean Workshop in Economic Theory, 6-7 June 2022, University of Porto, Portugal
• OLIGO2022, 10^th Annual Workshop organized by the Oligo Society, 3-5 June 2022, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
• AMEF2022, 6th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, April 18-19, 2022, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

• Mini-Conference on “Diversified institutional ownership and firms’ strategic behavior: causal effects and mechanisms” organized by Martin Schmalz, Virtual, January 14, 2022
• ASSET2021, 42nd Annual Conference of Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, 20-22 October, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France
• CRETE2021, 19th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, Naxos, July 12-16, 2021
• SING16, 16th  European Meeting On Game Theory, Virtual June 30 – July 2, 2021
• CEA2021, 55th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Virtual, 3-5 June, 2021
• OLIGO2020, Oligo Workshop, Virtual, June 4-6, 2020
• ASSET2019, Annual Conference of Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, 25-27 October, Athens U. of Economics and Business, Greece
• SING15, 15th European Conference on Game Theory, Game Theory Society, July 2-4, Turku School of Economics, Finland
• AMEF2019, 5th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, April 22-23, 2019, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
• EARIE2018, 45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, 31 August – 2 September 2018, Hellenic American Educational Foundation’s Athens College, Greece
• GTM2018, 12th International Conference on Game Theory and Management June 27 – 29, 2018, St.Petersburg State University , Russia
• OLIGO2018, Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Piraeus – Greece, 31 May – 2 June 2018
• AMEF2018, 4th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, April 02-03, 2018, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
• CRETE2017, 16th Conference on Research in Economic Theory and Econometrics, 10 – 14 July 2011, Milos, Greece
• UECE Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications 2016, 3 – 5 November 2016, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
• 23o Summer School – Conference “Dynamical Systems and Complexity”,  27 August – 3 September 2016, Kalandra University Camp, Chalkidiki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• EARIE2012, 39th Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, 2 – 4 September 2012, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata and LUISS, Rome, Italy
• GAMES2012, 4th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, 22-26 July 2012, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
• SING8 2012, 8th Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting on Game Theory, 16-18 July 2012, Budapest, Hungary
• IMAEF 2012, Ioannina Meeting on Applied Economics and Finance, 21-22 June 2012, University of Ioannina, Department of Economics, Greece
• CRETE2011, 10th Conference on Research in Economic Theory and Econometrics, 10 – 14 July 2011, Milos, Greece
• SAET2011, 11th Conference, Ancao (Faro), Portugal, 26 June – 1 July 2011, The Society of the Advancement of Economic Theory
• ASSET2009, Annual Conference of Association of Southern European Economic Theorists, 30-31 October 2009,  Bogazici University, Turkey
• SAET2009, Conference on Current Trends in Economics,  Ischia, Italy, 29 June – 5 July 2009, The Society of the Advancement of Economic Theory
• IMAEF2009, Ioannina Meeting on Applied Economics and Finance, 11-12 June 2009, Department of Economics, University of Ioannina
• 4th AFE-QASS 2007, Advances in Applied Financial Economics, 12 – 14 July 2007, INEAG, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Sciences
• PET06-HANOI, 7th Ιnternational Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, 28 July -7 August 2006,  Hanoi, Vietnam, Association for Public Economic Theory (APET)
• MACRO2006, 10th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance , 24 – 28 May 2006, Crete, Department of Economics, University of Crete.
• 17th International Conference on Game Theory, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 10-14 July 2006, U. S. A., Center for Game Theory in Economics.

TEACHING

• Microeconomics – Special Topics (BA 6th Semester)
• Industrial Organization (BA 7th semester)
• Experimental Economics (BA 8th Semester)
• Advanced Microeconomics (MA 1st semester)

 

ADMINISTRATION (selection)

• September 2024- August 2026, Head of the Division of Economic Theory & Policy of the Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of  Thessaloniki
• September 2023- Departmental Erasmus ECTS Coordinator
• September 2019 – August 2021, Head of the Division of Economic Theory & Policy of the Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of  Thessaloniki
• 2014 – 2019, Member of the Committee of the AUTH Campus in Kalandra, Chalkidiki.
• 2011 – present, Academic responsible for the faculty exchange program Erasmus / LLP with the University of Erfurt, Germany
• 2009 – present, Member of the committee for the preparation of the Internal Evaluation Report of the Department of Economics
• September 2008 – September 2009, representative of the Department of Economics in the Senate AUTH
• September 2007, Member of the Commission for the reform of the undergraduate curriculum program of the Department of Economics-AUTH.
• September 2003 – present, responsible for organizing the lecture series of G.O.TH.P Division – Laboratory of Economic Analysis and Policy.
• 2006-2007 Academic responsible for a group of students during the First traineeship Cycle.
•  September 2005 – September 2007, Coordinator of the Library Committee of the Department of Economics
• March to September 2005, Member of the Library Committee of the Department of OE
• March 2004 – present, Member of the Committee for Erasmus students
• 2003, 2004 Member of the Committee for organizing the welcoming ceremony of first year undergraduate srudents
• 2002-2010 Examiner for the course “Introduction to Economic Theory” as part of the graduates’ qualifying examination for entry in the Department.

OTHER

• University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences (DIGIES), invited speaker, June 2024
• Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Department of Economics, invited speaker, May 2024
• Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Department of Economics, invited speaker, March 2024
• CEREB Colloquium, invited speaker,  2018-2024
• 10 November 2016, speaker,  “Quality of Democracy and the Economy” at the conference ”The Reasons and Words of Democracy” organized by the Hellenic Parlament Foundation for Parlamentarisn and Democracy
• 2015-2016 Academic responsible (with Ch. Milliou) for the greek edition of the texbook  “Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies” by P.Belleflamme & M. Peitz
• “Entrepreneurship skill teaching and training programme (IP)”, 18-23 July 2016,  University of Latvia, Riga
• 2015-2016 Reviewer for the academic textbook “Game Theory” (in greek) by George Stamatopoulos (2016), in the context of the Kallipos Program – Greek Electronic Academic Texbooks
• 6 June 2015, speaker,  “Game Theory and Negotiations”,  Teloglion Foundation of Arts, AUTH,  within the context of the “Circle of Thessaloniki” Symposia.