Ημερολόγιο Εκδηλώσεων

On Wednesday, 9 December 2020, Fabio Canova (BI Norwegian Business School) will give a webinar with the title: "FAQ: How do I extract the output gap?" at 16:00 . The event is jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus, the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad; and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

Τhe Research Webinar of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, AUEB, includes distinguished speakers lectures. The third lecture will be given on Monday, December 7, 2020, 14:00, via MS Teams (http://tiny.cc/sist3rdRS ) by Kimon Drakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

Summary
In collaboration with the Greek government, we designed and deployed a nation-wide COVID-19 screening protocol for travelers to Greece. The goals of the protocol were to combine limited demographic information about arriving travelers with screening results from recently tested travelers to judiciously allocate Greece's limited testing budget to identify asymptomatic, infected travelers and quickly identify hotspots and spikes in other nations to inform immigration/border policies in real-time.

This talk details the operations of our designed system (including border screening, database management, closed-loop feedback, and liasing with contact-tracing teams) a novel, batched, contextual bandit algorithm tailored to the unique features of this problem and an empirical assessment of the benefits of the deployed system from the summer/fall 2020, showing that targeted testing based on traveler's features essentially doubles the effectiveness compared to random testing and static greylisting. That is, in a country with daily budget of 7500 tests, targeting is as effective as Radom sampling with 14,850 tests, a number that at the time was effectively the testing capacity of the whole country.

CV
Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business, where he researches complex networked systems, information design and information economics. He completed his Ph.D. in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, focusing on the analysis and control of contagion within networks. His current research revolves around controlling contagion, epidemic or informational as well as the use of information as a lever to improve operational outcomes in the context of testing allocation, fake news propagation and belief polarization.

On Wednesday, 25 November 2020,  Silvia Miranda-Agrippino (Bank of England) will give a webinar with the title: "When Creativity Strikes: News Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctuations" at 16:00. Τhis event is jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus, the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad; and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

   

 

University of Cyprus – Athens University of Economics and Business webinar in Economic Research

On Wednesday, 11 November 2020, Christopher Pissarides (LSE and UCY) will give a webinar with the title: "Productive Robots and Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems" at 16:00 (Zoom). You are cordially invited to attend this event jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics, and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the Athens University of Economics and Business and the Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

17th  e-Summer School

in Risk Finance and Stochastics

 
Risk Finance and Stochastics

RFS-2020

Web, 30 June – 3 July 2020

The 17th e-Summer School in Risk Finance and Stochastics, 30 June-3 July 2020 is organized by AUEB  (Departments of Accounting & Finance, Business Administration, Statistics) in collaboration with the University of the Aegean (Departments of Statistics & Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, Financial & Management Engineering).

Due to the current situation concerning the COVID 19 pandemic, the standard operation of the Summer School would be difficult, if not impossible. However, trying to stay loyal to our usual annual meeting, we decided to transform the school into e-mode, thus enabling distant participation. Surely, we will lose the joy of meeting, interacting and exchanging views, however, we hope that next year we will be able to get back to our usual modus operandi.

As always, we will have the pleasure and honour of having with us distinguished academics in the field.

The central topic of the school will be about a revision of the theory of arbitrage by Professor Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia).

Further topics that will be presented and discussed include stochastic finance, portfolio theory, risk management and decision making.

Among the speakers will be:

Fausto Gozzi  (Professor, LUISS University, Rome, Italy), 

Filippo Santambrogio (Professor, Claude Bernard - Lyon University, France),

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Professor, Poznan University of Technology, Poland),

Katherine Kyrtsou (Professor, University of Macedonia),

Athanasios Pantelous (Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia),

Diogo Pinheiro (Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of NY, USA),

Susana Pinheiro (Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College, City University of NY, USA),

Benoit Chevalier-Roignant (Lecturer, Cranfield University, UK),

Nuno Filipe Azevedo (Professor, Research Department, Banco do Portugal)

Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University, USA)

The school is addressed to postgraduate students, PhD students, postdocs, researchers and practitioners whoa are interested to stay informed about the latest developments in the field of stochastic finance.

There is no fee for attending the school, but interested participants should send an e-mail of intention to participate to masterst@aueb.gr , stating their name, capacity, affiliation and including a short cv (no more than 10 lines).

The Organizing Committee

I.Baltas (Assistant Professor., University of the Aegean)

G. Kouretas (Professor, AUEB)

A. Tsekrekos (Associate Professor, AUEB)

G. Papayiannis (Lecturer, Hellenic Naval Academy)

S. Xanthopoulos (Associate Professor, University of the Aegean) 

A.N. Yannacopoulos (Professor, AUEB)

National Summit on the European Green Deal

Friday 6 March 2020, Goulandris Natural History Museum (13 Levidou Str, Kifisia)

Monday 9 March 2020, Piraeus Port Authority (Main Conference Hall)

AUEB, in collaboration with EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece, the ATHENA Research Center and the UN SDSN Greece, jointly organize the National Summit on the European Green Deal.  

The opening session of the Summit will take place at Goulandris Natural History Museum (13 Levidou Str, Kifisia) on Friday, 6 March 2020, while the main part of the Summit will be held at the Main Conference Hall of Piraeus Port Authority S.A. on Monday, 9 March 2020.

This National Summit aims to gather the research and innovation ecosystem, together with the financial and policy institutions of the country in order to accelerate the much-needed sustainability transition.

According to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report, we have 10 years to limit climate change catastrophe and keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To achieve this, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal, the most ambitious package of measures that should enable European citizens and businesses to benefit from sustainable green transition. Measures accompanied with an initial roadmap of key policies range from ambitiously cutting emissions, to investing in cutting-edge research and innovation, to preserving Europe’s natural environment. The Greek National Summit aims to gather the research and innovation ecosystem, together with the financial and policy institutions of the country in order to accelerate the much-needed sustainability transition.

EIT Climate-KIC is Europe’s largest public-private partnership focused on the rapid, broad-based systems innovation we now need to tackle climate change and build resilient, net zero-carbon societies. EIT Climate-KIC is a knowledge and innovation community established and funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in 2010 aiming to tackle climate change through innovation bringing together large and small companies, scientific institutions and universities, city authorities and other public bodies, start-ups, and students.

ATHENA RC is leading EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece aiming at a prosperous and climate-resilient society based on the circular economy model through accelerating innovation and developing synergies.

For further information about registration, agenda, speakers please access https://www.athena-innovation.gr/el/events/eu-green-deal-event-2020

The Department of Informatics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) co-organizes the 1^st international Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School (AthNLP), which will take place at the campus of NCSR “Demokritos” from September 18 to 25, 2019. Natural Language Processing is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that develops algorithms and computational models that allow computers to “understand” and generate natural language text and/or spoken language. Examples of applications developed by the Natural Language Processing Group of AUEB’s Department of Informatics include information extraction from legal and biomedical documents, opinion mining from product reviews, systems that answer questions by searching for answers in scientific journals etc.

The instructors of the Summer School are distinguished Natural Language Processing researchers from universities, research centers, and information technology companies around the world. The School will be attended by approximately 100 participants, selected from approximately 260 who applied to participate. The central lectures of the Summer School will be video-recorded and will be made freely available after the completion of the School.

The Summer School is co-organized by the Department of Informatics of AUEB, the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR “Demokritos”, the Institute for Language and Speech Processing of the Research Center “Athena”, and the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences of Heriot-Watt University. The Scientific Committee of the School comprises Ion Androutsopoulos (Associate Professor, AUEB), Andreas Vlachos (Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge), Anastasia Krithara (Associate Researcher, NCSR “Demokritos”), Yannis Konstas (Lecturer, Heriot-Watt), Haris Papageorgiou (Research Director, RC “Athena”) and Georgios Petasis (Researcher, NCSR “Demokritos”). Dr. Vlachos and Dr. Konstas are also alumni of AUEB’s Department of Informatics. The Summer School is organized in cooperation with Lisbon Machine Learning School.

The Summer School is supported by several sponsors and academic supporters, including AUEB’s Education and Lifelong Learning Center and AUEB’s MSc in Data Science.

16th Summer School on Risk Finance and Stochastics - RFS-2019

(September 9-13, 2019)

Evelpidon 47A & Lefkados 33 str., 6th floor, Room 601 (9th -12th Sept.), Room 609 (13th Sept.)

AUEB’s Departments of Statistics, Accounting and Finance, and Business Administration in collaboration with the Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics of the University of the Aegean and the Hellenic Actuarial Society,  and the Research Laboratory on Stochastic Modelling and Applications are co-organizing the 16^th Summer School on Risk Finance and Stochastics, that will take place in the premises of Athens University of Economics and Business 9-13 September 2019. The focus of this year is on Actuarial Pricing and Practice and Stochastic Modelling.

The school hosts advanced courses on modern areas of Risk Management and Modelling, Financial Mathematics and Economics, Actuarial Mathematics and Economics, Stochastic Analysis and Modelling as well as for the first time hands on courses related to realistic problems and applied techniques in Actuarial Practice, delivered by academics as well as top experts in Actuarial Practice. This year’s keynote academic speakers are Professor Fausto Gozzi (Luiss Roma) and Professor K. Koufopoulos (York).

Intended audience is postgraduate students, PhD candidates and researchers as well as practitioners interested or already working with these concepts and techniques.

Organizing committee

V. Aggelou, HAS

G. Kouretas, AUEB

A. Tsekrekos, AUEB

S. Xanthopoulos, University of the Aegean

A. N. Yannakopoulos, AUEB

A. Zimbidis, AUEB

Programme

AUEB’s Department of Economics organizes the Econometrics workshop with distinguished guest Prof. Peter C. B. Phillips of Yale University on July 3^rd, 2019.

The workshop will take place at Troias Building, 2, Troias, Kimolou & Spetson Str., Office 102.

Programme

Conferment of Doctorate ‘Honoris Causa’ on Professor Lars Peter Hansen

May 28th, 2019, 18:30, Main Hall “Aula” (76, Patission str., main building, 1^st floor)

Professor Lars Peter Hansen will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business on May 28th, 2019. The ceremony will take place at the Main Hall “Aula” at 18.30

Bio

Welcome address by the Rector of the University, Professor Emmanouil Giakoumakis

Welcome address by the Head of the Department of Economics, Professor Eleni Louri -Dendrinou

Presentation of Professor Lars Peter Hansen’s scientific work by the Professor of the Department of Economics, Tryphon Kollintzas

Conferment of Doctorate ‘Honoris Causa’ on Professor Lars Peter Hansen

The Head of the Department, Professor Eleni Louri – Dendrinou reads the conferment resolution as adopted by the University’s Department of Economics

The Rector Professor Emmanouil Giakoumakis reads the Pronouncement

The Dean of the School of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor Anastasia Miaouli reads the award

Keynote speech delivered by Professor Hansen entitled “Uncertainty in Economics: Why Should We Care?”