Konstantinos Zachariadis

Dr Konstantinos (Kostas) E. Zachariadis is an Associate Professor (UK Reader) in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. Previously to that he was an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the Department of Finance at the London School of Economics, where he was also affiliated with the Financial Markets Group and the Paul Woolley Centre. His research interests lie in the areas of Market Design, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Investors. His research has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Finance, and Games and Economic Behaviour. He has taught extensively in Investments, Corporate Finance and Strategy, and Hedge Funds in the undergraduate, postgraduate, professional, and executive levels. He received his PhD in Managerial Economics and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. Furthermore, he holds an MSc from Northwestern University and a Diploma (5 year degree) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Market Design, Corporate Governance, Institutional Investors

Education

• Ph.D. Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management (2004 — 2008)
• M.Sc. Northwestern University (2002 — 2004)
• Diploma (5 year degree) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) (1996 — 2001)

PUBLICATIONS

• D. Cvijanovic, A. Dasgupta, and K. E. Zachariadis, “Ties that Bind: How Business Connections Affect Mutual Fund Activism” (Paul Woolley Centre Working Paper Prize), Journal of Finance, 71 (6), 2933-2966, Dec. 2016
• K. E. Zachariadis, and I. Olaru, “The Impact of Security Trading on Corporate Restructurings” (circulated before under the title “Trading and Voting in Distressed Firms”), Review of Finance, 21 (2), 667-718, Mar. 2017
• M. Satterthwaite, S. Williams, and K. E. Zachariadis, “Optimality versus Practicality: A comparison of two double auction mechanisms”, Games and Economic Behavior, 86, 248–263, Jul. 2014

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING

• K. E. Zachariadis, M. L. Honig, and A. K. Katsaggelos, “Source Fidelity over Fading Channels: Performance of Erasure and Scalable Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 56 (7), 2008
• B. Ata, and K. E. Zachariadis, “Dynamic Power Control in a Fading Downlink Channel Subject to an Energy Constraint”, Queuing Systems, 55(1), 2007
• N. V. Boulgouris, K. E. Zachariadis, A. Kanlis and M. G. Strintzis, “Multiple Description Wavelet Coding of Layered Video using Efficient Redundancy Allocation”, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2006