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  • Morphogenesis and Management: Some Implications 

    Makridakis, Spyros; Faucheaux, C. (The World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics, 1978)
    The main purpose of the paper will be to look at the influence of a change in perspective (namely, getting away from the input/output model) on social systems. in general, and management ones, more specifically. The ...

  • Narrative disclosure guidelines for CARs:an operational-based tool 

    Garefalakis, Alexandros; Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Lemonakis, Christos (Springer Verlag, 2020-08-31)
    Management Commentary Index (Ma.Co.I) is a composite measuring index developed for the detailed evaluation of narrative disclosure quality, as this has been delineated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board—FASB and ...

  • National Culture Underpins Individual Behaviour and Work-Related-Values: The importance of nationality 

    Papademetriou, Christos; Masouras, Andreas (2014)
    This analysis is devoted to the national culture and its linkage with individual behaviour and work-related values. The authors will investigate into what extent the national culture underpins individual behaviour.

  • A New Approach to Statistical Forecasting 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987-06)
    Available approaches to statistical forecasting suffer from several deficiencies (problems) that render their predictions for real-world economic/business series inappropriate. In this paper I illustrate such deficiencies, ...

  • The New Economy and the Strategy of Greek Firms 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Hellenica, 2001)
    Greece and Greek firms are behind their counterparts in advanced countries. This paper discusses the situation of Greek firms and proposes various strategies to be able to more successfully compete in the emerging new economy.

  • The New SIBYL/RUNNER Interactive Forecasting Package (1978) 

    Makridakis, Spyros; Wheelwright, Steven C. (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1978)
    The SIBYL/RUNNER interactive forecasting system is a comprehensive package of time-shared computer programs that seek to handle four essential forecasting functions. The first is screening alternative forecasting techniques ...

  • The Next “G” On ESG: The Strategic Thinking of Businesses Towards Supply Chain Fraud 

    Garefalakis, Alexandros; Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Ragazou, Konstantina; Passas, Ioannis (2021)
    Supply Chain Management is in the core of businesses’ operational activities worldwide. Its main purpose is the proper management of resources and the assurance of the sustainable operation of the economic entities. However, ...

  • Non parametric VaR Techniques. Myths and Realities 

    Giannopoulos, Kostas; Barone-Adesi, Giovanni (Wiley Online Library, 2003-12-03)
    VaR (value-at-risk) estimates are currently based on two main techniques: the variance-covariance approach or simulation. Statistical and computational problems affect the reliability of these techniques. We illustrate a ...

  • Nonparametric, conditional pricing of higher order multivariate contingent claims 

    Giannopoulos, Kostas (2008-09)
    This paper describes and applies a nonparametric model for pricing multivariate contingent claims. Multivariate contingent claims are contracts whose payoffs depend on the future prices of more than one underlying variable. ...

  • Observations comparees sur les incitations financieres au developpement regional en Grece (1982-1986) 

    Athanasopoulos, Constantinos GE.; Courteoux, Jean-Paul (Presses universitaires de France, 1988-12)
    Les lois de développement qui ont été périodiquement mises en oeuvre en Grèce n'ont pas toujours comporté d'incitations financières. Cette absence pouvait s'expliquer de plusieurs manières, soit que l'on ait préféré alors ...

  • On the Legislation of Investments in Greece 

    Athanasopoulos, Constantinos GE. (Κέντρο Επιμόρφωσης Μελετών Έρευνας και Ανάπτυξης, 1998)
    The new Government announced the five priorities of its governmental program that refer to matters of foreign affairs, defence economic and developmental policies, to the institutions and t public administration, Education, ...

  • On the synthesis of general systems 

    Makridakis, Spyros; Weintraub, Roy E. (Society for General Systems Research, 1971)
    The concept of a system has been identified in a large number of disciplines; biology, management science, economics, sociology, political science, theology, law, etc., have profited by the apparatus associated with ...

  • On the synthesis of general systems 

    Weintraub, Roy E.; Makridakis, Spyros (Society for General Systems Research, 1971)
    In Part I, we extended the work of Ashby [1,2] to develop an analytical framework for determining the relation betweén system size and system stability. It was established that, for linear dynamic systems, as the number ...

  • Operational elements of Narrative Disclosure Information (NDI) in a geographical context 

    Garefalakis, Alexandros; Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Lemonakis, Christos (Springer Verlag, 2020-11)
    Research on the quality of narrative information of annual financial reports has long been dominated by a lack of tools that permit an objective analysis of qualitative disclosure. This study is focused on accounting ...

  • Optimal long-run inflation and the New Keynesian model 

    Pontiggia, Dario (Elsevier, 2012-08)
    Central banks typically have a long-run inflation target that is modestly positive. However, the standard New Keynesian framework prescribes that zero inflation is the optimal longrun target. In this paper, we show that ...

  • Parallel banking system: Opportunities and Challenges 

    Zervoudi, Evanthia K. (Scienpress Ltd, 2019)
    The main aim of this article is to explicitly present what the parallel banking system is and its activities. The first part of the paper focuses on how this banking system could support real economy and contribute to the ...

  • The Political Dimension of the Greek Financial Crisis 

    Sklias, Pantelis; Maris, Georgios (Taylor and Francis Online, 2013-03-08)
    Many scholars have tried to comprehend and analyse the root causes of the Greek economic crisis. In the majority of these analyses, a series of economic factors were mainly highlighted as the key to understanding the nature ...

  • Portfolio selection under VaR constraints 

    Giannopoulos, Kostas; Clark, Ephraim; Tunaru, Radu (Springer-Verlag, 2005-03)
    In this paper we show that by assuming a constant variance/covariance matrix over the holding period, the VaR limits can often be exceeded within the relevant horizon period. To minimize this risk, we formulate the problem ...

  • Predicting Audit Opinions Evidence From The Athens Stock Exchange 

    Maggina, Anastasia; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Clute Institute, 2011)
    The purpose of this study is to provide evidence drawn from publicly traded companies in Greece as far as the predictability of going-concern opinions, and other business situations (problem companies, tax contingent ...

  • Predicting The Corporate Social Responsibility Of Listed Companies In Greece Using Market Variables 

    Maggina, Anastasia; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Clute Institute, 2012)
    This study primarily investigates differences in the market variables of companies that show corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared with those that do not. We also examine whether predictions of CSR can be ...