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Dr. Nikos Paltalidis is Associate Professor of Finance. He joined Durham University in 2015 as Assistant Professor, while previously he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. He was educated at Bangor University of Wales (BA Economics), Cass Business School (MSc Mathematical, Trading and Finance), London School of Economics (Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, Summer School), and University of Portsmouth (PhD Economics). He has received the 2017 Dean’s Award for Teaching in Economics & Finance, and has gained experience working for 10 years in the financial industry, at Hargreaves Hale Stockbrokers (U.K.), Frontier Capital Management (London) and Piraeus Bank (Athens), as a market risk quantitative analyst; hedge fund quant modeller, developer & arbitrageur; and portfolio officer in structured products, wholesale & corporate banking. 

Dr. Nikos Paltalidis has a broad interest in empirical and theoretical economics / financial economics, with an emphasis in macro-financial topics, including Macroeconomic Policy, Monetary Policy, Financial Intermediation, and Household Finance. More information is available in his personal webpage.

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• Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics
• Financial Intermediation (Banking)
• Household Finance

• Centre for Banking, Institutions and Development (CBID)
• Centre for Macroeconomic Policy
• Centre for Macroeconomic Policy
• Economics & Finance Department
• Quantitative Research in Financial Economics

Chapter in book

• Gounopoulos, D. & Paltalidis, N. (2018). Tail Risks in Credit, Commodity, and Shipping Markets. In Finance and Risk Management for International Logistics and the Supply Chain. Gong, Stephen & Cullinane, Kevin Oxford: Elsevier. 129-166.

Journal Article

• Delis, M. D., Hong, S., Paltalidis, N. & Philip, D. (2022). Forward Guidance and Corporate Lending. Review of Finance 26(4): 899-935.
• Boubaker, S., Gounopoulos, D., Nguyen, D.K. & Paltalidis, N. (2020). Reaching for Yield and the Diabolic Loop in a Monetary Union. Journal of International Money and Finance 108: 102157.
• Paltalidis, N. & Patsika, V (2020). Asymmetric Dependence in International Currency Markets. The European Journal of Finance 26(10): 994-1017.
• Boubaker, Sabri, Gounopoulos, Dimitrios, Nguyen, Duc Khuong & Paltalidis, Nikos (2018). Reprint of: Assessing the effects of unconventional monetary policy and low interest rates on pension fund risk incentives. Journal of Banking & Finance 92: 340-357.
• Boubaker, S., Nguyen, D.K. & Paltalidis, N. (2018). Fiscal Policy Interventions at the Zero Lower Bound. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 93: 297-314.
• Boubaker, S., Gounopoulos, D., Nguyen, D.K. & Paltalidis, N. (2017). Assessing the effects of unconventional monetary policy and low interest rates on pension fund risk incentives. Journal of Banking and Finance 77: 35-52.
• Kizys, R., Paltalidis, N. & Vergos, K. (2016). The quest for banking stability in the euro area: The role of government interventions. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 40: 111-133.
• Paltalidis, N., Gounopoulos, D., Kizys, R. & Koutelidakis, Y. (2015). Transmission Channels of Systemic Risk and Contagion in the European Financial Network. Journal of Banking and Finance 61(1): S36-S52.
• Kenourgios, D., Samitas, A. & Paltalidis, N. (2011). Financial crises and stock market contagion in a multi-variate time varying asymmetric framework. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 21(1): 92-106.
• Kenourgios, D., Samitas, A. & Paltalidis, N. (2009). Financial market dynamics in an enlarged European Union. Journal of Economic Integration 24(2): 197-221.