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Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis

Lecturer in Finance

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Specialisms

  • Corporate Finance, 
  • Banking, 
  • Large Language Models, 
  • Machine Learning

Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis is Lecturer in Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, whose research explores corporate finance, shadow banking, and the effects of geopolitical risk on financial markets.

Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Brunel University London and has taught extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the UK and Europe, including at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Sussex and City University of London

His teaching portfolio spans Investments, Portfolio Management, Quantitative Methods in Finance, Financial Derivatives, Alternative Investments, and Data Analysis. He has supervised more than 2,500 MSc dissertations over the past eight years and has been recognised with a Postgraduate Teaching Award from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Koutroumpis’s research lies at the intersection of corporate finance, banking, and macro-financial linkages, with particular focus on shadow banking, geopolitical risk, and machine learning applications in finance. His recent work employs advanced textual analysis and AI-based language models (FinBERT, FinLLaMA) to study firm behaviour, financial distress, and communication dynamics in corporate leadership.

His publications appear in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance and the International Journal of Finance and Economics, among others.

Bridging rigorous empirical research with real-world application, Dr. Koutroumpis brings a practice-oriented and data-driven approach to finance education, fostering analytical and decision-making skills relevant to modern global markets.

Reference: Kapetanios, G., Koutroumpis, P. , Tsoukis, C. and Glebkina, E. (2025) Expansionary and contractionary fiscal multipliers in the United States. International Journal of Finance & Economics. ISSN 1099-1158 doi: 10.1002/ijfe.70034
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Reference: Bayat, A., Goergen, M., Koutroumpis, P. and Wei, X. (2025) The impact of CEO political ideology on labor cost reductions and payout decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Corporate Finance, 90. 102692. ISSN 1872-6313 doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102692
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Reference: Campos, N., Karanasos, M., Koutroumpis, P. and Glebkina, E. (2025) The finance-growth nexus and public-private ownership of banks in Brazil since 1870. Annals of Operations Research, 352 (3). pp. 835-858. ISSN 1572-9338 doi: 10.1007/s10479-024-05924-7
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Reference: Campos, N., Glebkina, E., Karanasos, M. and Koutroumpis, P. (2023) Financial development, political instability, trade openness and growth in Brazil: evidence from a new dataset, 1890-2003. Open Economies Review, 34 (4). pp. 831-861. ISSN 0923-7992 doi: 10.1007/s11079-022-09684-4
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Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis
Reference: Goergen, M., Gounopoulos, D. and Koutroumpis, P. (2021) Do multiple credit ratings reduce money left on the table? Evidence from U.S. IPOs. Journal of Corporate Finance, 67. 101898. ISSN 1872-6313 doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.101898
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Reference: Campos, N. F., Karanasos, M. G., Karoglou, M., Koutroumpis, P. , Zopounidis, C. and Christopoulos, A. (2021) Apocalypse now, apocalypse when? Economic growth and structural breaks in Argentina (1886–2003). Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 30 (1). pp. 3-32. ISSN 2577-6975 doi: 10.1111/ecot.12315
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Reference: Campos, N., Karanasos, M., Koutroumpis, P. and Zhang, Z. (2020) Political instability, institutional change and economic growth in Brazil since 1870. Journal of Institutional Economics, 16 (6). pp. 883-910. ISSN 1744-1374 doi: 10.1017/s174413742000020x
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Reference: Hatgioannides, J., Karanassou, M., Sala, H., Karanasos, M. G. and Koutroumpis, P. D. (2018) The legacy of a fractured Eurozone: the Greek Dra(ch)ma. Geoforum, 93. pp. 11-21. ISSN 0016-7185 doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.04.019
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Reference: Karanasos, M., Koutroumpis, P. , Karavias, Y., Kartsaklas, A. and Arakelian, V. (2016) Inflation convergence in the EMU. Journal of Empirical Finance, 39 (B). pp. 241-253. ISSN 0927-5398 doi: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2016.07.004
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