Alexandros Kontonikas

Professor Alexandros Kontonikas is a faculty member at the Essex Business School (University of Essex), where he has been employed since 2016. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Brunel University and has previously worked at the University of Glasgow (2005-2016) and Brunel University (2003-2005). He served as Head of the Finance Group at Essex Business School from 2018 to 2021.

His research focuses on asset pricing, liquidity, monetary policy, and sovereign risk, with publications in leading journals such as the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of International Money and Finance.

Recent publications analyze:

• Monetary policy transmission mechanisms
• European sovereign debt dynamics
• Corporate bond return behavior
• Bank risk-taking under regulation
• Household portfolio decisions
• Market volatility forecasting

He has received research grants from prestigious institutions including the Leverhulme Trust and Nuffield Foundation, and has worked as a research consultant for the European Commission, European Central Bank, and Bank of Finland.

Professor Kontonikas supervises PhD students in areas related to:

• Monetary policy impact on financial markets
• Non-conventional policy effects
• Asset pricing anomalies
• Macro-finance linkages
• Market liquidity
• Sovereign risk dynamics