Ημερολόγιο Εκδηλώσεων

Presentation of AUEB’s Undergraduate Study Programs to Lyceum students, on March 10, 2022

The Athens University of Economics and Business presents online its Schools and Departments to all Greek Lyceum students on Thursday, March 10 at 09.00 am.
Register for the presentation, until Wednesday 23rd February, by clicking here.

The Institute of Geodynamics of the National Observatory of Athens and the Department of Statistics of Athens University of Economics and Business invite you in the webinar: "Stochastic Models in earthquake studies", to be held on Thursday 18th March 10:00 AM (Athens time zone)

Please register by 16th March at: https://forms.gle/Wv1dXmDdUoE8GUWq8

The access details to join the webinar will be provided by email to the registered participants only.

On Wednesday, 27 January 2021, George Kapetanios (King's College London) will give a webinar with the title: "Testing the Adequacy of the Fixed Effects Estimator in the Presence of Cross-section Dependence" at 16:00. The event is jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus, the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad; and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions.

For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

On Wednesday, 9 December 2020, Fabio Canova (BI Norwegian Business School) will give a webinar with the title: "FAQ: How do I extract the output gap?" at 16:00 . The event is jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus, the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad; and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

Τhe Research Webinar of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, AUEB, includes distinguished speakers lectures. The third lecture will be given on Monday, December 7, 2020, 14:00, via MS Teams (http://tiny.cc/sist3rdRS ) by Kimon Drakopoulos, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.

Summary
In collaboration with the Greek government, we designed and deployed a nation-wide COVID-19 screening protocol for travelers to Greece. The goals of the protocol were to combine limited demographic information about arriving travelers with screening results from recently tested travelers to judiciously allocate Greece's limited testing budget to identify asymptomatic, infected travelers and quickly identify hotspots and spikes in other nations to inform immigration/border policies in real-time.

This talk details the operations of our designed system (including border screening, database management, closed-loop feedback, and liasing with contact-tracing teams) a novel, batched, contextual bandit algorithm tailored to the unique features of this problem and an empirical assessment of the benefits of the deployed system from the summer/fall 2020, showing that targeted testing based on traveler's features essentially doubles the effectiveness compared to random testing and static greylisting. That is, in a country with daily budget of 7500 tests, targeting is as effective as Radom sampling with 14,850 tests, a number that at the time was effectively the testing capacity of the whole country.

CV
Kimon Drakopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business, where he researches complex networked systems, information design and information economics. He completed his Ph.D. in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT, focusing on the analysis and control of contagion within networks. His current research revolves around controlling contagion, epidemic or informational as well as the use of information as a lever to improve operational outcomes in the context of testing allocation, fake news propagation and belief polarization.

On Wednesday, 25 November 2020,  Silvia Miranda-Agrippino (Bank of England) will give a webinar with the title: "When Creativity Strikes: News Shocks and Business Cycle Fluctuations" at 16:00. Τhis event is jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus, the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad; and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar

   

 

University of Cyprus – Athens University of Economics and Business webinar in Economic Research

On Wednesday, 11 November 2020, Christopher Pissarides (LSE and UCY) will give a webinar with the title: "Productive Robots and Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems" at 16:00 (Zoom). You are cordially invited to attend this event jointly hosted by the Research Seminar Series of the Department of Economics, and the Department of International and European Economic Studies of the Athens University of Economics and Business and the Seminar Series of the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus.

The UCY/AUEB joint webinar brings together "socially distanced" economists from Greece, Cyprus, and abroad and exposes them to state-of-the-art research presented by experts in various fields of economics. The main goal is to exploit the current technological possibilities and make interesting work accessible to a wider audience, but also to preserve the intimacy of conventional seminars by allowing lively discussions and interactions. For more information regarding future events, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/ucy-aueb-webinar