Financial Economics: Objects and methods of science

Dr Andreas Andrikopoulos

When?

Thursday 8 March 2012, 11:00

Where?

32MS03

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Dr Andreas Andrikopoulos, University of the Aegean

Abstract

This paper outlines the assumptions on the nature of financial markets and investments which condition the mainstream theory of finance. Explanatory problems of financial economics are associated with the assumptions on financial reality and the respective method of inquiry, one routed in the practices of (some branches of) natural sciences. In an alternative conception of finance, financial markets are socially structured and are knowable to investors and theorists through fallible and transitive perceptions and theories.

Biography

Dr. Andreas Andrikopoulos is a lecturer of finance at the Department of Business Administrator of the University of the Aegean, Greece. He holds a bachelors’ degree in Business Administration (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece), an MSc degree in Economics and Finance (University of Warwick, UK) and a PhD in Financial Modelling (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece). His work has been presented in international conferences and published in international refereed journals. His teaching interests include econometrics, financial economics and microeconomics.
Dr. Andrikopoulos’ research work focuses on the valuation of financial and real options, on the liquidity of stock markets and on the methodology of financial economics.