Sotirios Karkalakos

Sotirios Karkalakos is a Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Piraeus. He received a BA in Economics from the University of Piraeus, an MSc in Finance from Florida Atlantic University and a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at the University of Exeter and at Keele University in the United Kingdom. He has taught at DePaul University and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA.
He provides consulting services to the private sector on education, business plans and investments. The design and delivery of distance learning programmes and the preparation of investment studies are part of his professional activity. He has publications in international scientific journals such as the European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, International Business Review and Journal of Applied Economics, as well as in edited volumes. He is also an academic reviewer for the journals European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Studies and Journal of Applied Economics. Finally, he participates in conferences both in Greece and abroad.