Marilou Ioakimidis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | uoa · Business Administration

In this paper, a two-stage approach is used to model international data on the spread of COVID-19. We find evidence of two convergence clubs, one with a higher and one with a lower COVID-19 death rate. We also find evidence to support the hypothesis that relatively high levels of educational attainment in a population predicts a lower COVID-19 deat...

Existing Industrial Relations (IR) research suggests that Private Equity (PE) takeovers may have profound effects on the target firm's industrial relations policies and practices, most notably in terms of security of tenure and relative proclivity to engage in redundancies. This study supplements the literature by exploring the effects of PE takeov...

How does the enforcement of labor regulations impact across a sector? This study questions whether penalizing one firm for labor violations induces competitors to improve or degrade their human resource (HR) standards. Prior work on inter-organizational spillover effects focuses on other business areas (e.g., knowledge and technology, each of which...

Based on implicit person theories, this paper investigates the relationship between the growth mindset of manage- ment accountants and changes in the design of costing systems, as well as the role that organisational culture plays in this relationship. Using survey data from 146 management accountants of manufacturing companies, we find that manage...

It is widely held that smart contracts on a blockchain possess several unique properties, including immutability, disintermediation, and enhanced security, that can be advantageous to organizations. In particular, having these properties can enable smart contracts to benefit human resources departments in a number of ways, including applicant verif...

Previous research has shown that implementing blockchain technology in businesses can lead to more secure and efficient processes in various organizational areas, including human resource management. This review paper examines the use of blockchain in human resources departments from the perspective of transaction cost economics theory, which ident...

Medical tourism is considered nowadays as a multi-billion industry which can promote a country's economic growth. Therefore, forecasting the scheduled tourism demand for medical services is of great importance for policy makers. Doing so, however, is not an easy task due to the following reasons: Data on medical tourism are (i) not easily accessibl...

Online reviews provide a wealth of information on how customers assess the different attributes of a service. Research shows that the performance of hotel service attributes is expected to have asymmetric effects on customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to analyze online reviews and determine whether different hotel service attributes...

Building on previous research contributions on the macroeconomic determinants of NPLs, this paper aims at assessing the cumulative impact of the two recent crises which, although based on different fundamentals, both resulted in a turbulent macroeconomic environment: first, the global financial crisis originating from the US financial system in 200...

The industrial success of Japan in the latter half of the twentieth century led to great interest in the Japanese management model and its associated concepts such as kaizen, JIT, and satei. When Japanese companies began expanding into the United States, the United Kingdom, and other Western countries, a debate ensued about whether the Japanese man...

We present a novel method for forecasting with limited information, that is for forecasting short time series. Our method is simple and intuitive; it relates to the most fundamental forecasting benchmark and is straightforward to implement. We present the technical details of the method and explain the nuances of how it works via two illustrative e...

University admission mechanisms are often quite complex. This paper examines one effect of their design on the students’ incentives to exert effort in preparation for the test. We adapt a multi-unit all-pay model of auction to draw the conclusion that abler students work harder: this conclusion is in line with the behaviour of a sample of students...

This article examines the impact of commodity price uncertainty on the U.S. economic activity. Our analysis indicates that uncertainty in agricultural, energy and metals markets depresses economic activity in the United States. Uncertainty shocks in agricultural and metals markets have a more long‐lasting dampening effect on economic activity and i...

Studies in different countries comparing the quality of education in private and public schools have used a variety of measurement methods to determine educational quality and findings have been mixed. For the unique situation of Greece, the variable of student admission to the Greek university system, depending on whether the student’s secondary e...

The extensive demand for blended learning programs imposes the problem of selecting the most appropriate instructional design from amongst a variety of alternatives that may be feasible for a particular program. The decision-making process should consider a number of qualitative factors such as the satisfaction of learning needs, educational effici...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the minimum wage level and the rates of unemployment and employment at Greek labour market, 2000 to 2017. According to theoretical and empirical studies, the relationship between labour market and the minimum wage rate is either positive, or negative, or even not related at all, depending...

The ostensibly free university education in Greece actually has several private costs. A comparative research design was used to compare Greek families' private expenditures for university education in 2014-2015 to families' costs for the same education in the year 2000 to determine whether there have been any changes during ensuring years. Data we...

Knowledge management includes the basic educational mission of determining the best strategies for transmitting knowledge to students so they are well prepared for future employment. At a time when e-learning is increasingly being employed as an educational alternative to traditional face-to-face learning, there is evidence that the preferable educ...

Theoretical notions in the literature suggest the existence of a negative relationship between earnings inequality and social capital as measured by interpersonal trust. In a number of crosscountry studies this negative relationship has been confirmed. However, in later cross country-studies that control for per capita wealth and several characteri...

Tertiary education compensates male and female students more than it financially rewards students who complete only secondary education. These benefits, however, do not apply equally to male and female students. Researchers in the United States have found that the earnings of male college graduates almost always surpass the earnings of female colle...

This paper examines the gender wage gap as well as male and female earnings as a function of within-firm tenure in the Czech Republic during 2004-2008. Using segmented regression, the wage gap and tenure were found positively correlated for approximately the first five years of within-firm employment, after which the correlation was near zero. Retu...

This study investigates the media-based content and opportunities for fan interaction used by 12 professional sports teams in four top-tier leagues (hockey, football, rugby, soccer) in North America and Europe. The National Football League (NFL) used more online marketing strategies and more mediabased content than teams in the National Hockey Leag...

The learning preferences of Greek students attending a two-semester undergraduate economics course at a Greek university were investigated. The course was taught by two instructors who initially used a student-centred teaching style combined with relaxed classroom management and teaching methods intended to help establish rapport with students. Nea...

The learning preferences of Greek students attending a two-semester undergraduate economics course at a Greek university were investigated. The course was taught by two instructors who initially used a student-centred teaching style combined with relaxed classroom management and teaching methods intended to help establish rapport with students. Nea...

This paper presents the development and validation of a two-level hierarchical cost model for tertiary education, which enables prospective students to compare the total cost of attending a traditional Baccalaureate degree education with that of the same programme taken through distance e-learning. The model was validated by a sample of Greek unive...

Two hundred and four students enrolled at a Greek university in the Economics department were asked to estimate the costs for participation in traditional and in distance education. These costs included 'psychological cost', which this paper reports on. 'Psychological cost', such as stress and anxiety for each educational method, was estimated by s...

Environmental responsibility (ER), as a major aspect of corporate social responsibility, is an important issue for organizations in the sport industry as it is for all other organizations. This paper presents three reasons why sport industry firms should embrace environmental responsibility as a management competency. The first is the ethical reaso...

Environmental responsibility (ER), as a major aspect of corporate social responsibility, is an important issue for organizations in the sport industry as it is for all other organizations. This paper presents three reasons why sport industry firms should embrace environmental responsibility as a management competency. The first is the ethical reaso...