Technical University of Crete

Faculty Member, Production Engineering and Management

Assistant Professor

About

----NEW BOOK COMING UP----

My new Book entitled "Greek Banking:  From the Pre-Euro Reforms to the Financial Crisis and Beyond" will be published shortly by Palgrave Macmillan in its series Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions.

See: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=540458


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BIO

Fotios Pasiouras is Assistant Professor of Quantitative Techniques in Business Administration at the Department of Production Engineering and Management at Technical University of Crete, where he is also Co-Director of Research of the Financial Engineering Laboratory.

He obtained a Bachelor in Economics (major: business economics) from the Department of Economics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), an MBA (Finance) and a PhD from Coventry University Business School (UK). He completed the Teaching Development Programme at the University of Bath, and he holds a Certificate in International Auditing from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

After the completion of his PhD, Fotios worked as Research Associate (Economist) at the Financial Engineering Laboratory of Technical University of Crete (September 2005-June 2006). Between July 2006 and August 2009, he was Lecturer B (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the University of Bath School of Management (UK) where he taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He returned in Technical University of Crete, as Assistant Professor, on September 2009.

He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance & Regulation at the University of Bath School of Management, a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Financial and Risk Management of Audencia Nantes School of Management, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Faculty of Business, Environment & Society at Coventry University. Between June and December 2008 he was a Foreign Research Fellow at the Centre for Central Banking Education & Studies of the  Central Bank of Indonesia. He has also been a Consultant to the OECD, and a Visiting Scholar at the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA). Since January 2010 he is one of the Coordinators of the EURO Working Group on Efficiency & Productivity Analysis (EWG-EPA). He is also a board member (deputy secretary) at the Financial Engineering and Banking Society.

In 2008, he received the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence at the University of Bath School of Management. His research has also received awards from Coventry University (2005) and Emerald Publishing (2008, 2009). His biography was included in the 27th Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in the World. 

He serves or has served as a referee, editorial board member, and guest editor in several academic journals. He is the Founding Editor and one of the Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance.

His research concentrates on the application of techniques from various disciplines such as econometrics, statistics, operational research, machine learning and artificial intelligent in business administration. He specializes in banking and financial management.

He has published around 50 papers in international journals such as: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking; Journal of Banking & Finance; Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments; Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of Financial Stability; European Journal of Operational Research; Omega; Expert Systems with Applications, etc. 


Selected Publications

(For a complete list see my C.V. For working papers visit: http://ssrn.com/author=602127 )

Delis M., Molyneux P., Pasiouras F., (2011), Regulations and productivity growth in banking: evidence from transition economies. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 43 (4), 735-764.

Pasiouras F., Tanna S., Gaganis C., (2011), What drives acquisitions in the EU banking industry? The role of bank regulation and supervision framework, bank-specific and market-specific factors. Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, 20 (2), 29-77. 

Agoraki M-E., Delis M., Pasiouras F., (2011), Regulations, Competition and bank risk-taking in transition countries. Journal of Financial Stability, 7, 38-48.

Lozano-Vivas A., Pasiouras F., (2010), The impact of non-traditional activities on bank efficiency: international evidence. Journal of Banking & Finance, 34, 1436-1449.

Ioannidis C., Pasiouras F., Zopounidis C., (2010), Assessing bank soundness with classification techniques. Omega- The International Journal of Management Science, 38, 345-357.

Fethi D.M., Pasiouras F., (2010), Assessing Bank Efficiency and Performance with Operational Research and Artificial Intelligent Techniques: A Survey. European Journal of Operational Research, 204, 189-198.

Pasiouras F., Gaganis C., Zopounidis C., (2010), Multicriteria classification models for the identification of targets and acquirers in the Asian banking sector. European Journal of Operational Research, 204, 328-335.

Pasiouras F., Tanna S., Zopounidis C., (2009), The impact of banking regulations on banks' cost and profit efficiency: Cross-country evidence. International Review of Financial Analysis, 18 (5), 294-302.

Pasiouras F., (2008), International evidence on the impact of regulations and supervision on banks’ efficiency: an application of two-stage data envelopment analysis. Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, 30 (2), 187-223

Pasiouras F., Tanna S., Zopounidis C., (2007), The identification of acquisition targets in the EU banking industry: an application of multicriteria approaches. International Review of Financial Analysis, 16 (3), 262-281.

Pasiouras F., Gaganis C., Zopounidis C., (2007), Multicriteria Decision Support Methodologies for Auditing Decisions: The Case of Qualified Audit Reports in the UK. European Journal of Operational Research, 180 (3), 1317-1330.

Gaganis C., Pasiouras F., Doumpos M., (2007), Probabilistic Neural Networks for the Identification of Qualified Audit Opinions. Expert Systems with Applications, 32, 114-124 

Pasiouras F., Gaganis C., Zopounidis C., (2006), The impact of bank regulations, supervision, market structure and bank characteristics on individual bank ratings: a cross-country analysis. Review of Quantitative Finance & Accounting, 27 (4), 403-438

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