Dr Thanos Athanasopoulos

Job: Senior Lecturer in Economics

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester Castle Business School

Address: athanasios.athanasopoulos@dmu.ac.uk

T: Ext: 7101

E: athanasios.athanasopoulos@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Welcome to my University page! I am Thanos Athanasopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School of Finance, Accounting, and Economics and Deputy Programme Leader for the BA in Business Economics and the Economics Joint Programmes.

Research group affiliations

Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value.

Research interests/expertise

My main research interests lie in the field of Industrial Organisation with a particular focus on (Digital) Platforms and Firm Strategy in Industries with network effects, Antitrust and Regulatory Economics, and Economics of Science and Innovation. I have also recently been involved in pedagogical projects.

Areas of teaching

Industrial Economics

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics and Digital Markets

Qualifications

BSc in Mathematics, University of Patra, Greece

MSc in Statistics and Operations Research, National and Kapodistrean University of Athens, Greece

MA in Economics, University of Southern California, US

PhD, University of Warwick, UK

Courses taught

Industrial Economic Analysis (MSc course), Introductory Mathematics and Statistics (Pre-sessional course for Masters students), Economics 2 (2nd year Undergraduate module), Corporate Finance and Markets (Final year Undergraduate module), Topics in Financial Economics: Theories and International Finance (Final year Undergraduate module), Research in Applied Economics (Final year Undergraduate module), Macroeconomics 2 (2nd year Undergraduate module)

Honours and awards

Outstanding Contribution at the Faculty of Business and Law, De Montfort University (2020) Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, De Montfort University (2018) Student nominations for Distinguished Teaching, De Montfort University (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
STARS OF WARWICK: Nominated as one of the three best postgraduate students teaching at Warwick, University of Warwick, UK (2012)
Award for Outstanding Contribution at the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Uk (2015)
Nomination for Teaching Excellence, University of Warwick, UK (2013)

Membership of external committees

Member of the Greek Statistical Institute (ESI) (2004-present)

Member of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (2015-present)

Professional licences and certificates

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Forthcoming events

Oligo Conference, Rethymno, Crete, 06/2024

7th International Conference on Innovative Research in Education, Nice, 06/2024

Conference attendance

Incentives to Innovate, Compatibility and Welfare in Durable Goods Markets with Network Effects

Presented at: Royal Economics Society Conference, Brighton, UK, 03/2016

Rising Star Session, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Munich, Germany, 08/2015

Compatibility, Intellectual Property, Innovation and Welfare in Durable Goods Markets with Network Effects

Presented at: International Conference on Competition and Regulation (CRESSE), Corfu, Greece, 07/2014

Royal Economics Society PhD Meetings and Job Market, London, UK, 01/2015

European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Munich, Germany, 08/2015

Efficient Upgrading in Network Goods; Is Commitment Always Good?

Presented at: CISS 2013 (Competition and Innovation Summer School), Turunc, Marmaris, Turkey 05/2013

3^rd GAEL Conference (Product Differentiation and Innovation in Related Markets), Grenoble, France 06/2013

Forum on Industrial Organisation and Marketing, Frankfurt, Germany, 08/2013

Recent research outputs

Productive Failure in a Level 5 Microeconomics course.

The role of strategic consumers and vertical differentiation on platform compatibility in growing markets, with Nick Huberts

Collusion with Quality Differentiation; A Nash Bargaining Approach, with Burak Dindaroglu and Georgio Petropoulo

Incentives to Innovate, Compatibility and Welfare in Durable Goods Markets with Network Effects

Compatibility, Intellectual Property, Innovation and Welfare in Durable Goods Markets with Network Effects