Demetris Christodoulou
BEcon Piraeus MSc(Fin) York(UK) PhD Athens
Lecturer
demetris.christodoulou@sydney.edu.au
Room 337
H69 - Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 7815
Fax: +61 2 9351 6638
Demetris is a trained economist with specialised interest in financial statement analysis and security valuation. His research focuses on the development of statistical and microeconometric models for the analysis of publicly available financial information and its implicit valuation by equity markets. Demetris's work addresses the methodological correctness of prominent empirical questions with the ultimate aim of increasing the precision and reliability of inferential decision-making. His work has been applied to the analysis of the probability distribution of accounting earnings, the estimation of expected accruals using double-entry constraints, the estimation of a long-run equilibrium for the earnings yield, the determination of audit fees etc.
Demetris received his PhD from Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) whilst holding a teaching and research fellowship at the University of Wales Bangor (UK) and a four-year research fellowship at the European Commission research network HARMONIA (EU) for investigating the harmonisation of financial reporting across the EU member states. He also held visiting posts at Columbia University (US), the University of Valencia (Spain) and the University of Sussex (UK).
Demetris is the general convenor of the multi-disciplinary research network Methodological and Empirical Advances in Financial Analysis (MEAFA), which is set to inform financial analysis research with advancements in economics, finance and applied research methods. He co-chairs the annual Summer Meeting on MEAFA that enjoys contributions from internationally renowned scholars.
Demetris also has great interest in designing advanced research training modules in quantitative analysis for the academia, industry and government. These have been implemented nationally (e.g. the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, the George Institute of International Health) and internationally (e.g. the CentER at Tilburg University, Netherlands, the Center for Doctoral Studies in Business at the University of Manheim, Germany). His free web-based resources on the use of Stata are being implemented by researchers from more than 75 sovereign jurisdictions. He also coordinates the annual MEAFA Winter Professional Development Workshop in Quantitative Analysis.
Research Expertise
- Financial analysis
- Methodological aspects of financial accounting research
- Properties of financial accounting variables