Dr Panagiota Makrychoriti — Birkbeck, University of London

Overview

Biography

Panagiota is a lecturer in Financial Management. She served as an adjunct lecturer and module leader at both the BSc and MSc programmes in the Department of Accounting and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), teaching modules such as “Advanced Portfolio Management” and “Behavioral Finance”.

Her research interests lie in the areas of monetary policy, credit risk, international macroeconomics, behavioral finance, economic modeling, quantitative financial analysis and financial econometrics. She has received research funding from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT, Greece) and the Research Centre at Athens University of Economics and Business during her Post Doctoral Fellowship. Her research has appeared in journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Financial Stability. Panagiota also serves as a reviewer in high impact journals.

Qualifications

Post-Doc in Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens (Greece), 2020
PhD in Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens (Greece), 2017
MSc in Accounting and Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens (Greece), 2012
BSc in Marketing and Communication, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens (Greece), 2008

Web profiles

Panagiota Makrychoriti (Researchgate profile)

Administrative responsibilities

Member of the Research Committee (Management Department)
Admissions Tutor.

Professional activities

Reviewer in high impact journals.

Member of the Scientic Committee of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) (International).

Member of PhD jury.

Honours and awards

Panagiota received funding from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT, Greece) and the Research Centre at Athens University of Economics and Business during her Post Doctoral Fellowship., General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT, Greece) and the Research Centre at Athens University of Economics and Business.,

ORCID

0000-0001-9713-597X

Research

Research interests

Monetary policy
International macroeconomics
Credit risk
Behavioral finance
Financial econometrics
Systemic risk

Research overview

Panagiota's research interests lie in the areas of monetary policy, credit risk, uncertainty, international macroeconomics, behavioral finance, economic modeling, quantitative financial analysis and financial econometrics. She has received research funding from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT, Greece) and the Research Centre at Athens University of Economics and Business during her Post Doctoral Fellowship. Her research has appeared in journals including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Financial Stability.

Working papers she is currently co-author in explore Brexit uncertainty and spillover effects; pandemics and their financial impact; conventional and unconventional monetary policy effects; potential monetary policy spillovers from the US or EU to other countries and whether they depend on country-specific attributes with the main focus being on the impact of the national culture, the regulatory environment and the role of foreign banks. Moreover she is currently working on studies concerning gender and decision making, commodities/oil prices and others.

Research clusters and groups

Member, Accounting and Finance group (Management department)

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:: 1

Current doctoral researchers

MO'AZ SHEHATA

Nature of supervision:
Principal Supervisor, Sep 2024 onwards

Teaching

While in Birkbeck, University of London, Panagiota has been the module convenor and/or lecturer for Valuation Analysis and Risk Management (PG), Portfolio and Market Analysis (PG), Principles of Investment Management (PG), Financial Accounting (UG), and module convenor for Applied Financial Management (PG) and Investing in Securities Markets (UG).

Teaching modules

Valuation Analysis and Risk Management (BUMN044H7)
Portfolio and Market Analysis (BUMN073H7)
Introduction to Accounting (BUMN131H4)

Publications

Article

Guesmi, K. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Spyrou, S. (2023) The relationship between climate risk, climate policy uncertainty, and CO2 emissions: empirical evidence from the US. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 212, pp. 610-628. ISSN 0167-2681.
Bouazizi, T. and Galariotis, E. and Guesmi, K. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota (2023) Investigating the nature of interaction between crypto-currency and commodity markets. International Review of Financial Analysis 88 (102690), ISSN 1057-5219.
Spyrou, S. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota (2023) To be or not to be in the EU: the international economic effects of Brexit uncertainty. European Journal of Finance 29 (1), pp. 58-85. ISSN 1351-847X.
Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Tasiou, M. and Pasiouras, F. (2022) Financial stress and economic growth: the moderating role of trust. Kyklos: International Review For Social Science 75 (1), pp. 48-74. ISSN 0023-5962.
Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Pasiouras, F. (2021) National culture and central bank transparency. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 72 (10131), ISSN 1042-4431.
Spyrou, S. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Krokida, S.-I. (2020) Monetary policy and herd behavior: international evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 170, pp. 386-417. ISSN 0167‐2681.
Galariotis, E. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Spyros, S. (2018) The impact of conventional and unconventional monetary policy on expectations and sentiment. Journal of Banking & Finance 86, pp. 1-20. ISSN 0378-4266.
Galariotis, E. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Spyros, S. (2016) Sovereign CDS spread determinants and spill-over effects during financial crisis: a panel VAR approach. Journal of Financial Stability 26, pp. 62-77. ISSN 1572-3089.

Book Section

Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Moratis, G. and Spyrou, S. (2020) The impact of unconventional monetary policy shocks on energy prices. In: Goutte, S. and Khuong Nguyen, D. (eds.) Handbook of Energy Finance. World Scientific. pp. 743-764. ISBN 9789813278370.