Lecturer in Finance
I am a lecturer in finance at Hull University Business School since July 2023. Before joining Hull University, I was a lecturer in Finance at Keele University. Moreover, during 2021 and 2022 I was a credit risk data analyst and scientist in Optasia, a multinational fintech company that provide services on micro-lending and airtime credit. In terms of my education background, I hold a PhD in Finance from Essex Business School, a MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Financial Engineering from the Department of Applied Mathematical and Physical sciences of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a BSc in Economics from University of Athens.
-Financial Markets and Investment Banking (2nd year undergraduate module)
-Financial Technology (2nd year undergraduate module)
The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity
Megaritis, A., Bakas, D., Bermpei, T., & Triantafyllou, A. (2025). The impact of term spread volatility on economic activity. Economics letters, 247, Article 112190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112190
The term structure of interest rates as predictor of stock market volatility
Megaritis, A., Kontonikas, A., Vlastakis, N., & Triantafyllou, A. (online). The term structure of interest rates as predictor of stock market volatility. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.3029
Can market information outperform hard and soft information in predicting corporate defaults?
Filomeni, S., Bose, U., Megaritis, A., & Triantafyllou, A. (2024). Can market information outperform hard and soft information in predicting corporate defaults?. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, 29(3), 3567-3592. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2840
Stock market volatility and jumps in times of uncertainty
Megaritis, A., Vlastakis, N., & Triantafyllou, A. (2021). Stock market volatility and jumps in times of uncertainty. Journal of International Money and Finance, 113, Article 102355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2021.102355
My research interests lie on the broad fields of
-Empirical finance
-Asset pricing
-Risk management
-Macro-finance
-Forecasting
My current research agenda includes working paper in credit risk, in macroeconomic forecasting, in the field of macroeconomy and financial markets (equity and commodities markets) and finally in machine learning technics with implications in finance.
I invite PhD applications in the following areas:
Macro-Finance : macroeconomic uncertainty and financial markets, monetary policy and financial markets.
Macroeconomic and Volatility Forecasting
Risk management
Fintech
I will consider applications in other areas if they sound interesting.
Accounting Finance and Economics
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