Christos I. Giannikos

Christos Giannikos is a professor of finance at the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, and at the Economics Department, Graduate Center, The City University of New York. He has taught at various other institutions, including Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley; Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; and Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia. He has a Diploma in mechanical engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and several graduate degrees, including a PhD in finance from Columbia University, New York. His field of expertise is investments and asset pricing. He has published his research in several major journals and has presented at conferences around the globe. He has received several research grants and is an associate editor for the International Journal of Economics and Business and the Journal of Housing Research. Dr. Giannikos has consulted for several governments, institutions, and firms, including the governments of Greece and Russia, the World Bank, CNL Financial Group, and Marcus & Millichap Company and has held executive and administrative positions in both business and education.

Academic Degrees

Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Mechanical Engineering, 1984

MS, Columbia University, Engineering, 1986

MPhil, Columbia University, Finance, 1992

PhD, Columbia University, Finance, 1992

Publications

C. Giannikos, Hany Giurguis and Panos Schizas, “Hedge Funds and the Housing Bubble,” Applied Financial Economics, published online 04 June 2014; DOI:10.1080/09603107.2014.909572

S. D’Addona and C. Giannikos, “Asset pricing and the role of macroeconomic volatility,”Annals of Finance, Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 197-215, 2014

C. Giannikos, H. Guirguis and M. Suen, “The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Dynamics of Price discovery among Stock Prices, CDS Spreads, and Bond Spreads for U.S. Financial Firms,” The Journal of Derivatives, Volume 21, Issue 1, pp. 27-48, 2013

C. Giannikos, “Information Acquisition in the Presence of Asymmetries in Risk Aversion,” The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 1-10, 2012

M. Dalvi, C. Giannikos and E. Gousgounis,“Short Sale Constraints: The Impact on the Return Distribution,” Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 94-107, 2012

C. I. Giannikos and E. Gousgounis,”Short – Sale Constraints and Opinion Dispersion: Evidence from the Indian Equity Market”, The Financial Review, Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 115-143, 2012

C. I. Giannikos, H. Guirguis and T. S. Suen,”Forecasting the Blind Principal Bid Basket Trading Cost”, European Financial Management, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 271-302, 2012

A. DaSilva, C. I. Giannikos and M. Farka, “Habit Formation in an Overlapping Generations, Model with Borrowing Constraints”, European Financial Management, Vol.17, No.4, 2011, pp.705-725

X. Ji and C. I. Giannikos,“ The Profitability, Seasonality and Source of Industry Momentum” Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 20, No. 17, 2010, pp. 1337-1349.

H. Guirguis , C. I. Giannikos, L. G. Garcia, “Asymmetry Pricing in Regional House Prices in Spain ,” Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2007, pp. 311-316.