Laboratory of Quantitative Economics and Information Systems

• Theoretical and Applied Econometrics
• Theoretical and Applied Statistics
• Models of Distribution Mixes
• Applications of the EM Algorithm
• Multivariate Analysis
• Stochastic Analysis
• Computational methods
• Information Systems and the World Wide Web

The scientific work of QMIT during the period 2016-2019 includes, but is not limited to, the following publications in scientific journals and book chapters, working papers and papers presented in scientific conferences:

Publications

• An investigation of factors affecting the visits of online crowdsourcing and labor platforms. Mourelatos, E., Tzagarakis, M., 2018, NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking 19(3), pp. 95-130
• Enhancing the impact of online hotel reviews through the use of emoticons, Manganari, E.E., Dimara, E., 2017, Behaviour and Information Technology, 36(7), pp. 674-686
• Don't change my towels please: Factors influencing participation in towel reuse programs, Dimara, E., Manganari, E., Skuras, D., 2017, Tourism Management, 59, pp. 425-437
• Transmission chains of economic uncertainty on macroeconomic activity: new empirical evidence, Salamaliki, P.K., Venetis, I.A., 2018, Macroeconomic Dynamics, pp. 1-31
• Asymptotic results for a stationary random process generated by the stochastic EM    algorithm in mixture analyses.  A. Polymenis (2018), Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, 21(2), pp. 251-260.

Book chapters

• Modelling reliability: a practical application from industry. A. Polymenis (2018), Advanced Engineering Research and Applications, vol. 9, chapter 22, pp. 283-288, Ed. Hongseok Choi, Research India Publications.

Working papers

• Dynamic Factor Models in gretl. The DFM package. Συγγραφείς: Riccardo Jack Lucchetti, Ioannis A Venetis, Date: 2019/1, Source: gretl working papers

Conferences

• Organization of  the 5^th Biennial gretl Conference, June 2-3 2017, Athens, Greece, http://www.gretlconference.org/2017-conference  (I. Venetis, M. Tzagarakis)
• Daskalou, V. & Komninou, M. Designing an online entrepreneurship course for Higher Education: preliminary issues and challenges. Proc, of the 10th Pan-Hellenic and International Conference "ICT in Education", Ioannina, Greece, September 2016.

Invited lectures

• QML-EM estimation of dynamic factor models in gretl. Towards a Labor Market Condition Index for Greece. I. Venetis. Marche Polytechnic University, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Ancona Italy (9 November 2017)
• Time series forecasting and forecast evaluation in economics. An introduction. (26 April 2018). I. Venetis. Presentation at the interdisciplinary postgraduate program: “Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making”, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics (CEID) and the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, for the course “Case studies in Decision Making”

Projects

• OPATEL: Online Platform for Academic TEaching and Learning in Iraq and Iran“,  Erasmus+ project, KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, Capacity Building in Higher Education, September 2017 (V. Daskalou as E-learning expert)
• “Open Up Entrepreneurship“, Erasmus + project, Strategic Partnerships in the field of Education, Training and Youth, October 2015-September 2017 (V. Daskalou as deputy scientific coordinator of Upatras team, V. Daskalou and M. Tzagarakis as researchers and tutors of the online course “OpEn: A learning walk in digital entrepreneurship”)