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  • Market Reaction to IAS/IFRS: Evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange 

    Maggina, Anastasia; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (2011)
    The capital market effects of IAS/IFRS have been examined in the international literature and have indicated that the effects are significant. In the contrary, evidence drawn from the Athens Stock Exchange indicates that ...

  • Communication: panacea or pain in the neck? 

    Tsaklanganos, Angelos (1978)
    This article analyzes whether communication can solve all management problems. With the rapid technological developments in methods of communication, corporate managers have become more increasingly dependent on electronic ...

  • Leadership: demythologizing some concepts 

    Tsaklanganos, Angelos (1988)
    Leadership is a topic of almost universal fascination. Popular attention focuses on it because its overtones of success, power, and prestige are traditionally admired and pursued human goals; academic interest in it is ...

  • Asset Growth and Firm Performance Evidence from Greece 

    Maggina, Anastasia; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (2012)
    This study provides evidence drawn from publicly traded companies in Greece on the predictability of assets growth with respect to firm performance. We employ discriminant analysis and a logit specification to test our ...

  • 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 ...

  • Management of time , a New Responsibility for Executives 

    Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Bureau of Business Research, 1971)
    In the complex business environment that exists today, executive responsibility can no longer be allocated only to the limited traditional administrative resources: manpower, money, materials, and market behavior.

  • Communication, a managerial myth 

    Tsaklanganos, Angelos (1978-08)
    Comunication is onc of the most widely used and least understood concepts current among managerof modern corporations.

  • An enquiry into the lease vs borrow decision of firms 

    Anastasiou, Thomas; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (European Scientific Institute, ESI., 2014-03)
    Greece has started to employ a new measure of financing with quite important success, especially over the last years, and this is the option of financial leasing. The measure has been decreed and put into effect quite ...

  • 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 ...

  • Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting: An Update and Evaluation 

    Makridakis, Spyros (International Statistical Institute (ISI), 1978-12)
    Forecasting has clearly become a field in its own right; its growth and change continue at a rather fast pace, as the number of published books and papers on the topic increases and as more experience about forecasting ...

  • Inflation persistence and optimal positive long-run inflation 

    Pontiggia, Dario (2007)
    Within New Keynesian economics, the optimality of a monetary policy that aims at zero inflation is surprisingly robust. Optimal monetary policy has this character despite the inefficiency of the nonstochastic steady state ...

  • Commitment policy and optimal positive long-run inflation 

    Pontiggia, Dario (2008)
    This paper studies different types of commitment policy in an economy where the deterministic steady state is inefficient. We show how a policy suggested by the approach of policy design entails positive long-run inflation, ...

  • Why combining works? 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1989)
    The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons why combining works, discuss the implications involved and propose guidelines for improving the field of forecasting by exploiting the reasons that contribute to the ...

  • What can we learn from corporate failure? 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1991)
    Failure is a natural process, observed in both biological and organizational systems. In this article different types of failure are illustrated and the most common factors that contribute to failure described. Delaying ...

  • Forecasting accuracy and system complexity 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Fontainebleau, France, 1995)
    Accurate forecasts are essential for a great number of applications yet large errors and considerable uncertainty characterize most of our attempts for predicting the future. This article surveys empirical studies on ...

  • The advanced forecasting information system PYTHIA: An application in real estate time series 

    Pagourtzi, Elli; Makridakis, Spyros; Assimakopoulos, Vassilis; Litsa, Akrivi (Emerald, 2015)
    Purpose – The main scope of the paper is to demonstrate the capabilities of PYTHIA forecasting platform, to compare time series forecasting techniques, which were used to forecast mortgage loans in UK, and to show how ...

  • Forecasting Methods for Managers 

    Makridakis, Spyros; Wheelwright, S. (Palgrave Macmillan Journals, 1974)
    The forecasting techniques available have increased both in number and com-plexity, so now is the time for a book to help both OR workers and managers to choose the most appropriate technique. Spyros Makridakis and Steven ...

  • Forecasting accuracy and the assumption of constancy 

    Makridakis, Spyros (Elsevier, 1981)
    Statistical forecasting is based on the assumption of constancy, or structural ability in the data. This paper argues that such an assumption might not always be realistic in real life forecasting situations. Unfortunately, ...

  • The Value of Decision Making in a Complex Environment: An Experimental Approach 

    Hogarth, Robin M.; Makridakis, Spyros (The European Institute of Business Administration, Fontainebleau, France, 1981)
    Are the costs of time arid effort spent on analyzing decisions outweighed by benefits? This issue was examined in the context of a competitive business game where human teams were pitted against two kinds of simple-minded ...

  • A quantitative model of accelerated vehicle-retirement induced by subsidy 

    Lorentziadis, Panos L.; Vournas, Stylianos (Elsevier, 2011)
    A number of accelerated vehicle-retirement programs have been implemented by private companies and public agents to reduce pollution and promote environment friendly technology. Our paper examines subsidy programs for the ...