Georgios Karalas - CV Georgios Karalas University Carlos III of Madrid, Department of Business Administration Calle Madrid 126, Getafe, Madrid, 28903, Room 6.0.24B Email: [email protected] Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/georgekaralas1/ Employment University Carlos III of Madrid, Department of Business Administration, Madrid, Spain Assistant Professor of Finance, 09/2019 - London School of Economics and Political Science, Finance Department, London, UK Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher, 10/2017 - 06/2019 University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management, Piraeus, Greece Research Associate, 10/2017 - 08/2019 Teaching Fellow, 3/2017 - 9/2017 Education University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management, Piraeus, Greece Ph.D. in Finance, January 2017 M.Sc. on Banking and Financial Management, 2009 Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Accounting and Finance, Greece B.Sc. in Accounting and Finance, 2007 Research interests Asset Pricing, Institutional Investors, Style Investing, Economic Policy Uncertainty Working Papers The Distribution of Investor Beliefs, Stock Ownership and Stock Returns, with G. Hardouvelis and D. Vayanos Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Greek Economic Crisis, with G. Hardouvelis, D. Karanastasis and P. Samartzis Style Inattention in Ownership, Stock Price Volatility and Stock Illiquidity, with G. Hardouvelis Liquidity and Stock Returns During Large Market Declines, with G. Hardouvelis Page 1 of 2 Georgios Karalas - CV Research Projects Development of uncertainty indices for Greece with the use of textual analysis, with G.A. Hardouvelis, D. Karanastasis, P. Samartzis (updated every month) The main indices are available at the Economic Policy Uncertainty site: http://www.policyuncertainty.com/HKKS_Monthly.html Presentations - Conferences - Academic Meetings (*co-author) 2019: University Carlos III of Madrid; University of Bristol; SGF Conference, Zurich 2018: RES PhD Meeting, London; Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst*; SITE Summer Workshop, Stanford*; CRETE 2018, Tinos, Greece* 2017: EFMA, Athens, Greece*; CRETE 2017, Milos, Greece* 2016: Academic Seminar, University of Piraeus, Greece*; Academic Seminar, Department of Accounting and Finance, AUEB, Athens, Greece* 2010 - 2016: Ph.D. Seminars, University of Piraeus 2015: First Ph.D. Conference in Finance and Banking, University of Piraeus, Greece 2010: 69th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Prague, Czech Republic Honors and Awards Grant for Participation to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Onassis Foundation, 2017 Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Piraeus, 2010 - 2015 M.Sc. Fellowship, National Bank of Greece, 2009 Teaching Experience University Carlos III of Madrid, Department of Business Administration 2019 - 2021: Financial Economics 2020 - 2021: Financial Systems and Institutions University of Piraeus, Department of Banking and Financial Management Spring 2017: Independently designed and delivered the course Topics on Risk Management Other Information Programming / Software: MATLAB, STATA, EViews, MS Office, LaTeX Databases: CRSP, Compustat, WRDS, Thomson Reuters (Datastream, Eikon, Thomson One), Bloomberg, Bankscope Languages: English (fluent), Greek (native) Page 2 of 2 .