Overview

Dimitris Kyriazis is currently an Associate Professor (equivalent to Reader in UK) at the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus (Greece). He teaches Financial Management, Corporate and Business Strategy to undergraduate courses and Mergers and Acquisitions to both undergraduate and post-graduate courses. He holds a PhD in Economics from the City University, London. The topic of his doctoral thesis was on Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to his academic assignment in the University of Piraeus (2002), he has worked (1997-2001) for Alpha Bank in Athens getting involved among other matters in mergers and acquisitions projects. His research work is focused on the issues of mergers and acquisitions, hedge fund activism and corporate governance, information asymmetry, investment strategy and market efficiency. His work has been published in highly rated academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, European Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. He has presented his research in several international conferences and has been the referee in several academic journals, such as the, International Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics και Journal of Economics and Finance. He is the author of a book entitled “Mergers & Acquisitions”, which was written in Greek and was first published in Athens (2007). He has conducted training seminars for professionals in the private sector. He has been the academic advisor for several years to the students’ team of the Department participating in the annual international competition “Research Challenge” of the CFA organisation in which the team of our Department gained the winner status at a country level (years 2019 & 2020).

Research

His research interests focus on several areas of Corporate Finance and Strategy, such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), the role of activist shareholders (e.g. hedge funds) in corporate governance, the market efficiency, the role of information asymmetries, the performance of investment strategies and metrics of managerial performance evaluation.

Courses

Undergraduate Programme of Studies
• Financial Management
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Policy and Strategy

Postgraduate Programme of Studies
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Selected Publications

• Apergis, N., P. Artikis and D. Kyriazis (2015). “Does stock market liquidity explain real economic activity? New evidence from two large European stock markets”. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 38,: 42-64. ABS rating (3).  DOI: 11016/j.intfin.2015.05.002

• Kyriazis, D. and Christou, Ch. (2013). “A Re-examination of the Performance of Value Strategies in the Athens Stock Exchange”. International Advances in Economic Research, 19,: 131-151. ABS rating (1) DOI: 10.1007/s11294-013-9402-7

• Kyriazis, D. and Diacogiannis, G. (2007). “Testing the Performance of Value Strategies in the Athens Stock Exchange”, Applied Financial Economics, 17 : 1511-1528. ABS rating (2). DOI: 1080/09603100600949226
• Kyriazis, D. and Anastassis, Ch. (2007). “The Validity of the Economic Value Added Model: an Empirical Application”, European Financial Management, 13, (1) : 71-100. ABS rating (3). DOI: 1111/j.1468-036X.2006.00286.x
• Holl, P. and Kyriazis, D. (1997). “Wealth Creation and Bid Resistance in U.K. Takeover Bids”, Strategic Management Journal, 18(6): 483-498. ABS rating (4). DOI: 1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199706)18:6<483::AID-SMJ895>3.0.CO;2-6
• Holl, P. and Kyriazis, D. (1997). “Agency, Bid Resistance and the Market for Corporate Control”, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 24, (8) : 1037-1066. ABS rating (3). DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00150