Biography

Apostolos joined the Department of Economics as an MSc student in Business Economics and Finance in 2007. After the successful completion of his postgraduate studies, he received an unconditional offer to pursue a PhD in Economics in 2009. Apostolos holds a BSc in Physics from Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece.He recently got accepted for a five-month (July-November) internship at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt under the Capital Markets/Financial Structure Division.

Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/apostolosthomadakis/

Year of Entry: 2009

Thesis Title: Contagion in Financial Markets: An Investigation of the Sub-prime Mortgage Crises

Supervisor(s): Daniele Massacci, Paul Levine

Research Interests

Apostolos’ s research interests combines time series econometrics with the empirical side of finance. Particularly, his objective is to understand the effects of financial crises on the behaviour and co-movements of asset prices, in the presence of non-linear dynamics, such as regimes, structural breaks and volatility.

Teaching

Current Teaching
ECO2010: Level 2 Intermediate Econometrics Tutorial, Spring Semester 2012
ECOM023: MSc Econometrics Tutorial, Spring Semester 2012

Past Teaching
ECO1012: Level 1 Principles of Macroeconomic Workshop, Autumn-Spring 2010-11
ECOM023: MSc Econometrics Tutorial, Spring Semester 2011

Departmental Duties

PhD Student Representative, Department of Economics
Postgraduate Research Conference 2012 Committee Member, University of Surrey