Eleni Zafeiriou

Eleni Zafeiriou is Associate Professor at the department of Agricultural Development in Democritus University of Thrace.

She has a first degree in Forestry and Natural Environment (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and in economics (University of Macedonia). She also holds a Master of Science in Economic Policy and Development (University of Macedonia) and a MsC in Mountainous Water Management.  Finally she holds a PhD in Applied Economic Statistics. She has been in the Department of Agricultural Development since 2012.

Her scientific field is Applied Economics Statistics focusing on the socio – economic dimension of environmental and energy issues. With more than 70 papers in different scientific journal (h index 11 in Scopus ) and 4 books in Quantitative Methods with application on Agricultural and Environmental Economics  tries to employ every time novel econometric techniques to examine the validity of different theories in agricultural and environmental economics.

International Refereed Journals

  1. Koutroumanidis Th,, Sylaios G., Zafeiriou E. and Tsihrintzis V. A. (2009). “Genetic modeling for the optimal forecasting of hydrologic time-series: Application in Nestos River”. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 368, Issues 1-4, 30 April 2009, pp. 156-164. ISSN: 0022-1694 (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.868).
  2. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., and Arabatzis G. (2009). “Asymmetry in price transmission between the producer and the consumer prices in the wood sector and the role of imports: The case of Greece”. Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 11, (1) pp. 56-64. ISSN: 1389-9341 (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.132).
  3. Zafeiriou Ε., Sofios S. and Arabatzis G. (2009). “An empirical study of the Theory of Purchasing Power Parity in the transition European Economies: The case of Czech Republic”. “Επιθεώρηση Οικονομικών Επιστημών – Review of Economic Sciences”, 15, pp. 141 – 152. (ISSN: 1109-2629, JEL Listed).
  4. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E. and Sofios S. (2009). “An Empirical Study of the Sheep Meat Production with Fuzzy Logic”. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics (JDAE), Vol. 1(7), pp. 150-161 (ISSN: 2006-9774).
  5. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., Aggelopoulos S., and Sofios Sp. (2010). “Α study of the volatility of the sheep meat production in Εuropean Union (EU)”. International Journal of Food, Agriculture &Environment (JFAE) vol. 8 (2), pp. 736-742 ISSN 1459-0255 (Impact Factor: 0.517).
  6. Zafeiriou E., Sofios S. and Koutroumanidis Th., 2011. “Water Management and Economic Growth; A Macroeconomic Model”. Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology (JEPE). Vol 12(3A) pgs.1563-1574. ISSN 1311-5065, (Impact Factor = 0.03).
  7. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis T., 2011. “Nonlinearities in the price behaviour of dairy products”. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review (jestr.org) 4(3), 261-265. Impact factor 0.2.
  8. Zafeiriou E., Arabatzis G. and Koutroumanidis T. (2011). “The fuelwood market in Greece: An empirical approach Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Vol 15, Issue 6, August 2011, Pages 3008-3018. (5-Year Impact Factor: 6.577).
  9. Koutroumanidis Th, Ioannou K., and Zafeiriou E.. (2011). “Forecasting Bank Stock Market Prices with a Hybrid Method: The Case of Alpha Bank”. Journal of Business Economics and Management, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144 – 163. ISSN: 0022-1694 (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.881).
  10. Sariannidis N., and Zafeiriou E., (2011). “The spillover effect of financial factors on the inferior rice market”. International Journal of Food, Agriculture &Environment (JFAE) Vol. 9, Issue 1, pages 336-341. ISSN 1459-0255 (Impact Factor: 0.517).
  11. Zafeiriou E., Sariannidis N., (2011). “Nonlinearities in the price behaviour of agricultural products: The case of cotton”. International Journal of Food, Agriculture &Environment (JFAE) 2011, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pages 551-555.ISSN 1459-0255 (Impact Factor: 0.517). Η εν λόγω εργασία έχει αναφερθεί και στις δύο υπό εξέταση βάσεις δεδομένων 1 φορά.
  12. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis Th., Karelakis C. and T. Trivellas, 2012. The virgin olive oil production in Mediterranean basin: An empirical approach. African Journal of Agricultural Research Vol. 7(43), pp. 5734-5750. Impact Factor 0.2.
  13. Zafeiriou E., Arabatzis G., Sariannidis N. and Sofios S. 2012. Non linearities and chaos in stock price behavior of Greek oil sector: The case of Hellenic Petroleum S.A. African Journal of Business Management, 6(28),Pages, 8435-8445.
  14. Zafeiriou E., Arabatzis G. and Koutroumanidis T. 2012 The round wood market in Greece: An empirical approach. Forest Systems. 21(1)31-41. (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.888).
  15. Sariannidis N. Zafeiriou E., Giannarakis G., and Arabatzis G 2013. CO2 Emissions and Financial Performance of Socially Responsible Firms: An Empirical Survey Business Strategy and the Environment, 22( 2), pages 109–120. (Impact Factor, 3.236)
  16. Karelakis, C., Zafeiriou, E., Galanopoulos, K., & Koutroumanidis, T. 2013. Natural resources in regional and rural development: moving from public perceptions to policy action. New Medit, 12(1), pages 56-64. (Impact Factor 0,203)
  17. Zafeiriou E., Karelakis C., Sariannidis N., 2013. Validity of PPP for Producer Meat Prices in EU; Some Evidence. Special issue of Procedia Economics and Finance for ICOAE. Pages 819-826.
  18. Zafeiriou, E., Karelakis, C. , Malesios, C. , Koutroumanidis, Th., 2014. Market and Economic Development in Bulgaria. Economic Crisis in Europe and the Balkans. Contributions to Economics, Springer Verlag. pages 211-226.
  19. Tsantopoulos, G., Karelakis, C., Zafeiriou, E., & Tsoulakaki, D. (2014). Mapping the Rural Problem and Development: What do Greek Landowners Think?. Procedia Economics and Finance, 9, 208-218.
  20. Zafeiriou, E. (2013). Optimisation of water pricing in the Greek agricultural sector. International Journal of Green Economics, 7(4), 348-357.
  21. Zafeiriou, E., Arabatzis, G., Tampakis, S., & Soutsas, K. (2014). The impact of energy prices on the volatility of ethanol prices and the role of gasoline emissions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 33, 87-95.
  22. Dimos, Papadopoulos, Zafeiriou Eleni, and Karelakis Christos. “Income Optimization of Energy Crops in Greece under Different CAP Scenarios.” Procedia Economics and Finance 33 (2015): 388-397.
  23. Papadopoulos, S., Karelakis, C., Zafeiriou, E., & Koutroumanidis, T. (2015). Going sustainable or conventional? Evaluating the CAP’s impacts on the implementation of sustainable forms of agriculture in Greece. Land Use Policy, 47, 90-97.
  24. Zafeiriou, E., Petridis, K., Karelakis, C., & Arabatzis, G. (2016). Optimal combination of energy crops under different policy scenarios; The case of Northern Greece. Energy Policy, 96, 607-616.
  25. Zafeiriou, E., & Karelakis, C. (2016). Income volatility of energy crops: the case of rapeseed. Journal of Cleaner Production, 122, 113-120.
  26. Papadopoulos, S., Zafeiriou, E., Karelakis, C., & Koutroumanidis, T. (2016). Investigating Farmer’s Perceptions of Adopting Alternative Farming Systems. In The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis (pp. 33-45). Springer International Publishing.
  27. Azam, M., Khan, A. Q., Zafeiriou, E., & Arabatzis, G. (2016). Socio-economic determinants of energy consumption: An empirical survey for Greece. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 57, 1556-1567.
  28. Giannarakis, G., Zafeiriou, E., Sariannidis, N., & Efthalitsidou, K. (2016). Determinants of dissemination of environmental information: an empirical survey. Journal of Business Economics and Management, 17(5), 749-764.
  29. Sariannidis, N., Giannarakis, G., Zafeiriou, E., & Billias, I. (2016). The Effect of Crude Oil Price Moments on Socially Responsible Firms in Eurozone. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 6(2).
  30. Grigoris Giannarakis, Xanthi Partalidou, Eleni Zafeiriou, Nikolaos Sariannidis. (2016). An analysis of United States on Dow Jones Sustainability Index doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.13(3-2). 2016.07
  31. Giannarakis, Grigoris, Eleni Zafeiriou, and Nikolaos Sariannidis. “The impact of carbon performance on climate change disclosure.” Business Strategy and the Environment 26.8 (2017): 1078-1094.
  32. Zafeiriou, Eleni, and Muhammad Azam. “CO2 emissions and economic performance in EU agriculture: Some evidence from Mediterranean countries.” Ecological indicators 81 (2017): 104-114.
  33. Zafeiriou, E., Sofios, S., & Partalidou, X. (2017). Environmental Kuznets curve for EU agriculture: empirical evidence from new entrant EU countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(18), 15510-15520.
  34. Karanikola, P., Tampakis, S., Zafeiriou, E., & Akrivouli, K. (2017). LOCAL PEOPLE ATTITUDES TOWARDS WETLAND MANAGEMENT. THE CASE OF LAKE KARLA IN GREECE. Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology, 18(3), 1268-1276.
  35. Ioannou, K., Tsantopoulos, G., Arabatzis, G., Andreopoulou, Z., & Zafeiriou, E. (2018). A spatial decision support system framework for the evaluation of biomass energy production locations: case study in the regional unit of drama, Greece. Sustainability, 10(2), 531.
  36. Zafeiriou, E., Arabatzis, G., Karanikola, P., Tampakis, S., & Tsiantikoudis, S. (2018). Agricultural commodities and crude oil prices: an empirical investigation of their relationship. Sustainability, 10(4), 1199.
  37. Giannarakis, G., Zafeiriou, E., Arabatzis, G., & Partalidou, X. (2018). Determinants of corporate climate change disclosure for European firms. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 25(3), 281-294.
  38. Mallidis, I., Vlachos, D., Yakavenka, V., & Eleni, Z. (2018). Development of a single period inventory planning model for perishable product redistribution. Annals of Operations Research, 1-17.
  39. Zafeiriou, E., Katrakilidis, C., & Pegiou, C. (2019). Consumer Confidence on Heating Oil Prices: An Empirical Study of their Relationship for European Union in a Nonlinear Framework. European Research Studies, 22(1), 68-95.
  40. Gkika, D., & Zafeiriou, E. (2019). Agriculture in the Baltic States; An Empirical Investigation of the Environmental-Economic Performance Relationship. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT, 34(1), 1-14.
  41. Zafeiriou, E., Karanikola, P., Tampakis, S., & Tampakis, A. (2019). Residents’ Perceptions on Socioeconomic Impacts of a Wetland Project; The Case of Lake Karla. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, 40(1), 1-15.
  42. Zafeiriou, E., Mallidis, I., Galanopoulos, K., & Arabatzis, G. (2018). Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Performance in EU Agriculture: An Empirical Study in a Non-Linear Framework. Sustainability, 10(11), 3837
  43. Partalidou, X., Zafeiriou, E., Giannarakis, G., & Sariannidis, N. (2020). The effect of corporate social responsibility performance on financial performance: the case of food industry. Benchmarking: An International Journal.
  44. Tsiantikoudis, S., Zafeiriou, E., Kyriakopoulos, G., & Arabatzis, G. (2019). Revising the environmental Kuznets Curve for deforestation: an empirical study for Bulgaria. Sustainability, 11(16), 4364.
  45. Zafeiriou, E., Chatzissavvidis, C., Antonopoulou, C., & Arabatzis, G. (2021). Sweet chestnut and agricultural development: a farmers’ perspective for Northern Greece. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1-17.
  46. Zafeiriou, E., Andrea, V., Tampakis, S., & Karanikola, P. (2020). Wetlands Management in Northern Greece: An Empirical Survey. Water, 12(11), 3181.
  47. Spinthiropoulos, K., Nikas, C., & Zafeiriou, E. (2020). Tourism and economic growth in Greece: An ARDL bound testing approach in a Kaldorian framework. Acta Oeconomica, 70(2), 215-227.
  48. Spinthiropoulos, K., Nikas, C., & Zafeiriou, E. (2020). Tourism and economic growth in Greece: An ARDL bound testing approach in a Kaldorian framework. Acta Oeconomica, 70(2), 215-227.
  49. Pardalos, P., Zafeiriou, E., & Vergidis, K. (2020). Preface: BALCOR 2017. Annals of Operations Research, 294(1), 1-7.
  50. Spinthiropoulos, K., Nikas, C., & Zafeiriou, E. (2020). Sector Analysis and Economic Growth in Greece: The Domination of Tourism over Other Sectors. In Economic Growth in the European Union (pp. 167-176). Springer, Cham.
  51. Spinthiropoulos, K., Nikas, C., Zafeiriou, E., & Garefalakis, A. (2018). Tourism and economic growth under heavy taxation: An empirical investigation for Greece. Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law.
  52. Yakavenka, V., Mallidis, I., Vlachos, D., Iakovou, E., & Eleni, Z. (2020). Development of a multi-objective model for the design of sustainable supply chains: The case of perishable food products. Annals of Operations Research, 294(1), 593-621.
  53. Mallidis, I., Vlachos, D., Yakavenka, V., & Eleni, Z. (2018). Development of a single period inventory planning model for perishable product redistribution. Annals of Operations Research, 1-17.

Refereed International Conferences

  1. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis Th. and Sofios S. (2006). “Empirical investigation of PPP in the agricultural products”. Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on: Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment and Food Technology (HAICTA 2006), 20th – 23rd September 2006, Volos, Greece, pp. 603 – 609. (ISBN: 960-8029-44-9) (Διαθέσιμο σε CD-ROM).
  2. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis T. and Sofios S. (2008). “I(1) Cointegration Analysis. An empirical study of the relationship between the real exchange koruna – dollar rate and economic fundamentals for Czech Republic and US”. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Applied Economics, Kastoria 15 – 17 May 2008, pp. 945 – 951.
  3. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis T. and Sofios S. (2008). “Testing non Linear Structures of the Stock Prices of the Firms in the Sector of Dairy Products; The case of Vivartia”. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Applied Economics (HAICTA 2008), Athens 18 – 20 September 2008, pp. 186 – 193. (ISBN: 978-960-387-725-7)
  4. Zafeiriou E. (2009). “The Validity of PPP in the Dairy Sector and the Role of Macroeconomic Variables: Case of Greece” Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies in the Economic and Administrative Sciences. Athens 25 – 27 May 2009. pp. 557-561. (ISBN: 978 – 96098739-0-1).
  5. Zafeiriou E., Koutroumanidis Th., Karelakis Ch., Koutroubas S.”. (2011). “Surveying the validity of PPP in the dairy sector of EU by using nonlinear cointegration. 5th Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on: Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenvironment and Food Technology (HAICTA 2011 September 8-11, 2011, Skiathos Island, Greece pp. (ISBN: ). (Διαθέσιμο σε CD-ROM).
  6. Zafeiriou E., Karelakis C., Malesios Ch., Koutroumanidis Th., 2012. Asymmetry In Price Transmission Mechanism Between The Producer And The Consumer Prices In The Dairy Sector; The Case Of Transition Economies. Proceedings of 4th International Conference of The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the changed World (EBEEC, 2012, 11-13 May, 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria).
  7. Zafeiriou E., Karelakis C., Tsantopoulos G., Polymeros K., 2013. “Greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth for the European agricultural sector”, Proceedings of 5th Conference “The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the Changed world”, (EBEEC, 2012, 9-12 May, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey).

Scientific Annals

  1. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., and Arabatzis G. (2008). “Time series analysis and forecasting of hake quantities of catch in Greece”. Scientific Annals of the Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources , DUTH. Volume 1, pgs. 193 – 203.

BOOKS

  1. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., ‘Economic Analysis; Methods and Publications, Ziti Editions, Thessaloniki, 2012
  2. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., ‘Malesios, Ch., Statistics II with applications in Agricultural Economics Tziola Editions, Thessaloniki, 2013.
  3. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., ‘Malesios, Ch., Statistics I with applications in Agricultural Economics Tziola Editions, Thessaloniki, 2014.
  4. Koutroumanidis Th., Zafeiriou E., ‘Malesios, Ch., Mathematics for the Science of Agriculture

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Zafeiriou Ε. and Koutroumanidis Θ. (2008). «The Socio – economic impacts of the distribution of Water Resources in «Natural Resources, Environment and Development», by Arambatzis and Polyzos, pgs. 147 – 182, Tziola Editions. (ISBN: 960-418-153-7).
  2. Koutroumanidis Th., Sylaios G. and Zafeiriou E. (2008). «Models of Management of Natural and Economic Sources «Natural Resources, Environment and Development», by Arambatzis and Polyzos, pgs. 147 – 182, Tziola Editions. (ISBN: 960-418-153-7).