Portsmouth Business School

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Dr. Nikolaos Antonakakis, PhD (Strathclyde) MSc (Strathclyde) BSc (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Nikolaos is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth's Business School. He previously held a position of Lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and also at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria. He lectures in a range of subjects; his teaching interests include Financial Economics, International Banking and Financial Management, Macroeconomics and Quantitative Methods/Econometrics.

Nikolaos is an active researcher in a number of fields. His research interests and areas of expertise include: International Financial Economics, International Macroeconomics, International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, European Integration, and Applied Econometrics.

Nikolaos has published articles on business cycle and international trade synchronization, international spillovers within the real economy, and within foreign exchange markets, integration and policy coordination within the EU, international risk sharing and on central bank interventions. His scademic journal publications include: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economics Letters, Applied Economics Letters, International Finance, International Economic Journal, Journal of Advanced Studies in Finance, and Banks and Bank Systems. He has several Top-Journal-Article awards from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2012.

Nikolaos has been invited to various conferences including: i) EUROSTAT: as a private expert at the 6^th Eurostat Colloquium on “Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis” and ii) participated in a round table (panel discussion) as a main discussant regarding the “Future of the Euro” at the University of Linz.

He has been a referee in various peer-reviewed journals, and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Marmara Journal of European Studies since 2011.

Office House: by appointment

Selected Publications

• “Does Integration and Economic Policy Coordination Promote Business Cycle Synchronization in the EU?” (with Tondl, G.) Journal of Policy Modeling, (forthcoming).
• “Exchange Return Co-movements and Volatility Spillovers Before and After the Introduction of Euro”, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 22 (5), 2012, pp. 1091-1109.
• “International Spillovers of Output Growth and Output Growth Volatility: Evidence from the G7 countries” (with Badinger, H.), International Economic Journal. 26 (4), 2012, pp. 635-653.
• “The Great Synchronization of International Trade Collapse” Economics Letters, 117 (3), 2012, pp. 608-614.
• “Business Cycle Synchronization during US Recessions since the Beginning of the 1870s” Economics Letters, 117 (2), 2012, pp. 467-472.
• “Has Globalization Improved International Risk Sharing?” (with Scharler, J.) International Finance, 15 (2), 2012, pp. 255-266.

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