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  • Education Efficiency and Labor Market Achievements: An Evaluation for Twenty OECD Countries 

    Vliamos, Spyros; Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. (Elsevier, 2006)
    The paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA-CCR model) to evaluate the tertiary-level educational system mechanism, relating a set of inputs to some outputs, in particular, income and employment. The analysis concerns ...

  • Entrepreneurship and innovation at work and schools: The Greek paradigm 

    Vliamos, Spyros (Inderscience Publisher, 2008)
    Rapid technological changes in Global markets today, which require rapid responses of markets, make innovation development a prerequisite. Businesses exploit new ideas to create new products, processes or services and new ...

  • The Assessment of Compensatory Damages for Medical Error by the Greek Courts: An Economic Analysis 

    Vliamos, Spyros; Hatzis, Aristides (Athenian Policy Forum & North Waterloo Academic Press, 2009)
    In this paper, after summarizing and reviewing the methods of computing damages for wrongful death or injury in the law and economics literature, we present the way in which damages should be compensated for according to ...

  • Small business performance: Seeking efficiency through knowledge based networks 

    Vliamos, Spyros; Emm. Halkos, George; G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos (Inderscience Publisher, 2009)
    This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to examine 252 small foreign owned equities operating in the Greek manufacturing sector. By using a number of essential factors (like the number of employees, ...

  • Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Process and Firm Start-Ups: Evidence from Central Greece 

    Vliamos, Spyros; G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos (Springer, 2012)
    Over the last two decades, technological changes have reformed business environment and made entrepreneurial activity as the main channel behind knowledge spillovers and knowledge creation. Therefore, the factors affecting ...

  • Factors influencing the profits and size of Greek banks operating abroad: a pooled time-series study 

    Kosmidou, Kyriaki; Pasiouras, Fotios; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2005)
    This paper extends the literature on foreign banking by developing a model that attempts to explain the performance of Greek banks operating abroad using a balanced pooled time-series dataset. Five variables are drawn from ...

  • Domestic and multinational determinants of foreign bank profits: The case of Greek banks operating abroad 

    Kosmidou, Kyriaki; Pasiouras, Fotios; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Elsevier, 2007)
    This paper examines the determinants of profits of Greek banks operating abroad by developing an integrated model that includes a set of determinants informed by the literature on the profitability of both multinational ...

  • Taxation and Bank Efficiency: Cross-Country Evidence 

    Gaganis, Chrysovalantis; Pasiouras, Fotios; Tsaklanganos, Angelos (Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2013)
    This paper investigates the relationship between the effective tax rate on bank income and bank profit efficiency. Our sample consists of 3,472 observations from 533 publicly quoted commercial banks operating in 46 countries ...

  • Linear-testable and C-testable Nx~x Ny~ modified Booth multipliers 

    Gizopoulos, Dimitris; Paschalis, A.; Nikolos, D. (Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 1996)
    The testability of modified Booth multipliers is examined with respect to the cell fault model, an implementation-independent fault model. This is especially useful in design environments where the cell realisations are ...

  • Protecting foreign investments against expropriation: a comparative study of Japan's EPAs 

    Papanastasiou, Thomas-Nektarios (Inderscience Publishers, 2011)
    Expropriation is the most traditional type of political risk. However, there is no consistency in the protection against expropriation according to international jurisprudence. This paper analyses what constitutes expropriation ...

  • 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 ...

  • Towards a Parallel Inference Hnchine: the APIH project 

    Vlahavas, J.; Pombortsis, A.; Stamatis, D. (Microprocessing and Microprogmmmlng, 1990-08)
    This paper gives an overview of the APIM (Aristotle Parallel Inference Machine) research project, which aims to the design of a new multiprocessor architecture for the parallel execution of logic programs. The APIM system ...

  • Building houses with bacteria 

    Bakas, Nikolaos; Piero Tiano, Linda Wittig (2014-10-20)
    Houses of the future could be partially built with bacteria. It sounds like science fiction but researchers involved in an EU-backed project in Madrid are working towards making this a concrete reality.

  • Moralia in the Lives 

    Papadi, Diotima (Waltert de Gruyter, 2008)
    One tends to look into the Moralia for examples of Plutarch’s views on poetry, or his uses of theatrical language. There is indeed quite a big amount of quotations from tragic poets, and Plutarch comments on them developing ...

  • Plutarch on poetry 

    Papadi, Diotima (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
    The topic is a very challenging and attractive one for scholarship of all ages, namely how readers, in this case young readers, should respond to and understand poetry, and most importantly, how to use poetry in their ...

  • Theatricality and dramatic vocabulary in Plutarch's Moralia 

    Papadi, Diotima (2005)
    Theatre and drama deserve a special place among the various influences on Plutarch, since the theatre has a double impact. Its capacity to both offer good teaching material in its substance and good literary models makes ...

  • Minimizing the Torsional Response of RC Buildings Under Earthquake Loading 

    Bakas, Nikolaos; Lagaros, N. D.; Papadrakakis, M. (South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2006)
    In this work a number of design approaches for 3D Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings are formulated as structural optimization problems and are assessed in terms of the performance under earthquake loading. In particular ...

  • Advances in design optimization of reinforced concrete structural designs 

    Mitropoulou, Chara C.; Bakas, Nikolaos; Lagaros, Nikos D.; Papadrakakis, Manolis (Taylor & Francis, 2008)
    In this work a number of design approaches for 3D reinforced concrete (RC) buildings are formulated in the framework of structural optimization problems and they are assessed in terms of structural performance under ...

  • Volatility Spillovers and Price Interdependencies; A Dynamic non Parametric Approach 

    Giannopoulos, Kostas; Nekhili, Ramzi; Koutmos, Gregory (International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2010)
    This paper investigates the volatility spillovers of four major equity markets using a new approach namely, the Filtered Historical Simulation approach (FHS). The FHS captures very effectively the changes ...

  • Estimating the Joint Tail Risk Under the Filtered Historical Simulation. An Application to the CCP's Default and Waterfall Fund 

    Barone-Adesi, Giovanni; Giannopoulos, Kostas; Les, Vosper (Geneva :Swiss Finance Institute, 2015)
    To ensure that central counterparties (“CCPs”) are safe in all market conditions the European Union (EU) has adopted legislation, commonly known as the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”) that deal with their ...