Panagiotis Andrikopoulos

Panagiotis Andrikopoulos is the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial and Corporate Integrity (CFCI) at Coventry Business School and a Professor of Finance. Prior to joining Coventry University, Panagiotis was a Reader in Finance at Leicester Business School (De Montfort University, UK) where he taught various finance courses such as investment theory and analysis, finance theory, advanced corporate finance, and behavioural finance. During the period 2012-2015, he has also been an Extraordinary (Adjunct) Associate Professor in Finance for the School of Accounting Sciences at North-West University of South Africa.

He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Portsmouth (2002) for studying the profitability of contrarian investments strategies in the UK setting. His main research interests lie in the areas of corporate finance, market efficiency and behavioural finance, subjects on which he has widely published in various academic journals of international standing, such as the Annals of Operations Research, British Accounting Review, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, European Journal of Finance, Accounting Forum, etc. Currently, his research concentrates on three distinct themes: i) the quantification of stakeholder theory; ii) SME's bankruptsy prediction, and iii) stock market herding behavior.

Panagiotis serves as a panel member of various editorial and scientific advisory boards including The British Accounting Review (Editorial Board Member); the Journal of Applied Accounting Research (Associate Editor); the BAFA's Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group (Advisory Board Member); the Review of Behavioral Finance (Editorial Board Member); and, the Global Labor Organisation (Fellow). He has also been a frequent contributor to a wide range of international conferences and research symposia with over 90 presentations at international conferences, keynote speeches, guest lectures and research seminars across the UK and abroad.

Panagiotis is a member of the Chartered Institute for Security and Investment (MCSI) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Area of Expertise:

• Behavioural Finance
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Stakeholder Theory

My research focuses on the areas of stock market efficiency and behavioural finance. I am especially interested in investigating the theoretical weaknesses of the neoclassical finance paradigm and its possible empirical violations manifested via alternative stock market mispricing phenomena. At the moment, my efforts are concentrated in two distinct areas: i) the quantification of the stakeholder theory and its link to optimal financial decision-making, and, ii) stock market herding behavior.