Staff Catalogue

COSTAS XIOUROS

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Faculty of Economics and Management
FEB 01 - Faculty of Economics and Management, 115
University Campus
Costas Xiouros holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Southern California, and an MSc in Financial Mathematics, and a BSc in Accounting and Finance, from the University of Warwick.

His research interests are in the area of general equilibrium asset pricing with a particular focus on the determinants of expected returns and asset price fluctuations. In much of his research, he investigate the effects of heterogeneity across agents.
 

He has taught a variety of topics at all levels, ranging from financial management, risk management and derivatives, to investments and strategic asset allocation.

  • Asset pricing theory (general and partial equilibrium models, time-series and cross-sectional)
  • Empirical asset pricing (time-series and cross-sectional)
  • Heterogeneous agents
  • Trading volume
  • Macroeconomy, monetary policy, and asset prices
  • Strategic asset allocation
Disagreement, information quality and asset prices, with Fernando Zapatero, Journal of Financial Economics, 2024, Volume 153, Article 103774}.
 
Risk aversion sensitive real business cycles, with Z.Chen, I. Cooper and P. Ehling, Management Science, April 2021, 67(4):2483-2499.
 
Handling of the Laiki Bank ELA and the Cyprus Bail-in Package, The Cyprus Bail-in: Policy Lessons from the Cyprus Economic Crisis, Imperial College Press, 2016, p. 33-102.

The Representative Agent of an Economy with External Habit-Formation and Heterogeneous Risk-Aversion, with Fernando Zapatero, Review of Financial Studies, 2010, 23(8): 3017--3047.

Credit Risk Optimization Using Factor Models, with David Saunders and Stavros Zenios, Annals of Operations Research, July 2007, 152(1): 49--77.

Risk Management in Emerging Markets: Practical Methodologies and Empirical Tests, with David Saunders, Stavros Zenios and Marios Nerouppos, Multinational Finance Journal, 2006, 10(3): 179--221.