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Professor Kostas Nikolopoulos' Outputs (7)

Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Strategic Financial Decisions: Seasoned Equity Offerings, Stock Splits, Pandemic effects, and Investment Decisions (2024)
Journal Article
Mendiola Colan, G., Nikolopoulos, K., & Vasilakis, C. (in press). Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Strategic Financial Decisions: Seasoned Equity Offerings, Stock Splits, Pandemic effects, and Investment Decisions. The Journal of Prediction Markets,

Scholars in the intersection of operational research, strategy, and finance have extensively examined the effects of event studies in finance, especially that of a strategic nature, such as that of planned as well as unexpected corporate events and r... Read More about Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Strategic Financial Decisions: Seasoned Equity Offerings, Stock Splits, Pandemic effects, and Investment Decisions.

Forecasting the success of International Joint Ventures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nikolopoulos, K., Hamo Younes, A., & Phan, M. (2024, July). Forecasting the success of International Joint Ventures. Poster presented at INFORMS Advances in Decision Analysis Conference (ADA 2024), Aalto University, Helsinki-Espoo, Finland

Prediction-led prescription: optimal Decision-Making in times of Turbulence and business performance improvement (2024)
Journal Article
Schaefers, A., Bougioukos, V., Karamatzanis, G., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2024). Prediction-led prescription: optimal Decision-Making in times of Turbulence and business performance improvement. Journal of Business Research, 182, Article 114805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114805

Can you have prescription without prediction? Most scholars and practitioners would argue that a good forecast drives an optimal decision, thus promoting the concept of prediction-led prescription. In times of turbulence, Special events like promotio... Read More about Prediction-led prescription: optimal Decision-Making in times of Turbulence and business performance improvement.

Forecasting crude oil markets (2024)
Journal Article
Li, J., Alroomi, A., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2024). Forecasting crude oil markets. Journal of Econometrics and Statistics, 4(1), 15-51. https://doi.org/10.47509/JES.2024.v04i01.02

In this research daily crude oil data from U.S, Energy Information Administration from 2000-2019 is explored to test the forecasting accuracy by drawing the comparison between multiple models.
Forecasting models discussed in the research cover regre... Read More about Forecasting crude oil markets.

Forecasting and Planning for a critical infrastructure sector during a pandemic: empirical evidence from a food supply chain (2024)
Journal Article
Aljuneidi, T., Punia, S., Jebali, A., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2024). Forecasting and Planning for a critical infrastructure sector during a pandemic: empirical evidence from a food supply chain. European Journal of Operational Research, 317(3), 936-952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.04.009

The meat supply chain (MSC) – a key constituent of the ‘Food & Agriculture’ CISA critical infrastructure sector, was among the most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The witnessed successive demand and supply shocks uncovered the f... Read More about Forecasting and Planning for a critical infrastructure sector during a pandemic: empirical evidence from a food supply chain.

Forecasting and planning for special events in the pulp and paper supply chains (2024)
Journal Article
Brookes, T., Nikolopoulos , K., Litsiou, K., & Alghassab, W. (online). Forecasting and planning for special events in the pulp and paper supply chains. Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/16258312.2024.2315029

Due to global warming, flood is an increasing threat to companies operating in the pulp and paper industry. The impact of this threat needs to be managed. We deploy a qualitative investigation into how paper manufacturers can forecast and mitigate th... Read More about Forecasting and planning for special events in the pulp and paper supply chains.