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  • "Forecasting: its role and value for planning and strategy" 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1996)
    First i would like to thank the commentators for their excellent and well thought comments on my paper. I believe that there is little disagrement between their views and mine. All commentators, with the possible exception ...

  • The Forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms 

    Makridakis, Spyros (2017-01)
    The impact of the industrial and digital (information) revolutions has, undoubtedly, been substantial on practically all aspects of our society, life, firms and employment. Will the forthcoming AI revolution produce similar, ...

  • The Forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms 

    Makridakis, Spyros (2017-01-11)
    The impact of the industrial and digital (information) revolutions has, undoubtedly, been substantial on practically all aspects of our society, life, firms and employment. Will the forthcoming AI revolution produce similar, ...

  • The Forthcoming Information Revolution: Its Impact on Society and Firms 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1995)
    The impact of the industrial revolutions on all aspects of our society, work and life has, undoubtedly, been substantial. Will all the talk about the information revolution produce similar, far-reaching changes? By examining ...

  • France, Germany and the New Framework for EMU Governance 

    Maris, Georgios; Sklias, Pantelis (Taylor and Francis Online, 2015-07-13)
    The European crisis is the best case study for examining both the vulnerabilities of Europe’s framework for economic governance and the very process of European integration itself. This statement is true for several reasons: ...

  • From Dictatorship to Democracy: US-Greek Relations at a Critical Turning Point (1974–1975) 

    Klapsis, Antonis (2011)
    The essay examines the way US-Greek relations evolved during the first critical year after the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship in Greece. It is argued that the new prime minister of Greece, Konstantinos ...

  • The future of forecasting 

    Gardner, Everette S.; Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1988)
    This paper discusses our aims in organizing this special issue. We believe that a synthesis of the field is needed to resolve the many conflicts between theory and empirical evidence and between advocates of the various ...

  • General Principles on Environmental Policy in Industrial Units 

    Kopsidas, Odysseas (2018-01)
    Within the environmental policy framework, one could distinguish two categories, both of which aim at the protection of the environment. The first category is based on the concept of reducing the use of non-renewable ...

  • Generalising about univariate forecasting methods: further empirical evidence 

    Fildes, Robert; Hibon, Michele; Makridakis, Spyros; Meade, Nigel (Elsevier, 1998)
    This paper extends the empirical evidence on the forecasting accuracy of extrapolative methods. The robustness of the major conclusions of the M-Competition data is examined in the context of the telecommunications data ...

  • Globalization and profits in the Balkans 

    Athanasopoulos, Constantinos GE. (Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 2006)
    Greek private direct investments in Balkan countries carry a special weight because, on the one hand, the country of origin of the capital invested is a member of the European Union and, on the other, it is a neigh boring ...

  • Globalization and the instability of global financial markets 

    Sklias, Pantelis; Maris, Georgios (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013-07)
    The financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 is a clear example of how is globalisation connected to the instability of global financial markets. Our target is not to analyze the immediate and direct contributing ...

  • Greek economic crisis management program and its impact on public employees' earnings: a case series and literature review 

    Spinthiropoulos, Konstantinos; Tsiatsiou, Efthymia; Garefalakis, Alexandros; Stavropoulou, A.; Chaitidis, G. (Czestochowa University of Technology, 2021-12)
    The economic crisis forced the Greek Government to implement a series of controversial fiscal consolidation policies, also known as Memoranda of Economic and Financial Policy (a.k.a. Memoranda), resulting in internal ...

  • Greek Hidden Champions: Lessons from Small, Littleknown Firms in Greece 

    Voudouris, Irini; Lioukas, Spyros; Makridakis, Spyros; Spanos, Yiannis (Pergamon, 2000-12)
    The purpose of the research described in this paper is to first identify successful Greek SMEs that can be qualified as ‘hidden champions’ and second to uncover the factors that have contributed to their success. These ...

  • The Greek hotel sector: an analysis of job satisfaction, role conflict and autonomy of Greek employees 

    Papademetriou, Christos; Belias, Dimitrios; Rossidis, Ioannis; Lambrinoudis, Nikolaos (Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-09-07)
    The present study examined job satisfaction within the hotel industries from the perspective of ambiguity, role conflict and job autonomy, as well as their interactions. Structurally, the analysis begins with the presentation ...

  • Greek Private Investment in the Balkans 

    Athanasopoulos, Constantinos GE. (Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 2006)
    Greek private direct investments in Balkan countries carry a special weight because, on the one hand, the country of origin of the capital invested is a member of the European Union and, on the other, it is a neighboring ...

  • Greek sovereign crisis and European exchange rates: effects of news releases and their providers 

    Gkillas, Konstantinos; Vortelinos, Dimitrios I.; Floros, Christos; Garefalakis, Alexandros; Sariannidis, Nikolaos (Springer Verlag, 2020-11)
    In this paper, we study the contribution of the geographical (both the regional and international) aspect of news releases, related to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. We investigate the impact of the Greek debt crisis via ...

  • Here to Stay”? Golden Dawn, From the Political Margin to the Political Foreground 

    Klapsis, Antonis (2014)
    “When we won 5.3% in the Municipality of Athens [in 2010], they said it was circumstantial. We told them that we are here to stay. And from Athens we will spread to all of Greece. When on May 6 [2012] we won 6.9 per ...

  • ‘Horses for Courses’ in demand forecasting 

    Petropoulos, Fotios; Makridakis, Spyros; Assimakopoulos, Vassilis (Elsevier, 2014-02-22)
    Forecasting as a scientific discipline has progressed a lot in the last 40 years, with Nobel prizes being awarded for seminal work in the field, most notably to Engle, Granger and Kahneman. Despite these advances, even ...

  • How Rewarding is Technical Analysis? Evidence from Athens Stock Exchange 

    Vasiliou, Dimitrios; Eriotis, Nikolaos; Papathanasiou, Spyros (Springer, 2006)
    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of various technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Market. We test two of the simplest and most popular trading rules- Moving Averages and MACD Indicator. We ...

  • Hypertension: empirical evidence and implications in 2014 

    Makridakis, Spyros; DiNicolantonio, James J. (Open Heart, 2014-05-28)
    High blood pressure (HBP) or hypertension (HTN) is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Despite this fact, there is widespread agreement that the treatment of HBP, ...