Department: Finance and Business Law (FBL), Westminster Business School

Position: Senior Lecturer in Finance

Contact:
+44 (0)20 7911 5000
p.dontis-charitos@westminster.ac.uk

Education

PhD Finance, Cass Business School, City University, London
MSc Insurance and Risk Management, Cass Business School, City University, London
BSc (Dist) Finance and Auditing, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece

Biography

Panagiotis Dontis-Charitos joined WBS in 2010 and serves as Senior Lecturer in Finance. He holds a BSc in Finance and Auditing, an MSc in Insurance and Risk Management and a PhD in Finance. He has worked as a visiting lecturer and teaching assistant at Cass Business School, delivering various modules in the area of finance at the undergraduate as well as the postgraduate levels. In addition, he has worked as a stock analyst and sales analyst at brokerage firms in Greece.

Teaching

Panagiotis currently teaches at the undergraduate and MBA programmes. Specifically, he is the module leader of the Fundamentals of Finance (UG), Financial Information (UG) and tutor of International Financial Management (UG). He is also a member of the team delivering the multidisciplinary “Identifying and evaluating value to the organisation” module (MBA), delivering the part on financial risk management and derivatives.

Research

His main research interests are in the areas of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions and Markets. His current research focuses on financial conglomerates. More specifically, it covers the bank-insurance interface and its effect on the risk-return profiles of financial intermediaries and on the financial industry.

Publications

Journal articles

• Dontis-Charitos P., Molyneux P. and S.K. Staikouras (2011) “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?” Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments 20(1): 1-28
• Dontis-Charitos P., Elyasiani E. and S.K. Staikouras (2010) “Cross industry product diversification: The case of bank-insurance takeovers.” Working paper
• Dontis-Charitos P. and S.K. Staikouras (2010) “Hybrid financial institutions: The battle for the curtail of regulatory hedges.” Working paper
• Dontis-Charitos P., Casu B., Staikouras S. and J. Williams (2011). “How do acquirers fare in bank-insurance takeovers? A risk decomposition approach.” Working paper
• Dontis-Charitos, P., and Staikouras, S.K. (2011) “Do bank managers pay a premium for product diversification related synergies?” Working paper

Conferences

2011

• Financial Management Association Europe, Porto, Portugal. “How do acquirers fare in bank-insurance takeovers? A risk decomposition approach.”
• International Finance and Banking Society conference, Rome, Italy. “How do acquirers fare in bank-insurance takeovers? A risk decomposition approach.” & “Cross industry product diversification: The case of bank-insurance takeovers”
• British Accounting and Finance Association annual conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom. “How do acquirers fare in bank-insurance takeovers? A risk decomposition approach”
  

2010

• INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. “Cross industry product diversification: The case of bank-insurance takeovers. “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”
• British Accounting Association annual conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom. “Cross industry product diversification: The case of bank-insurance takeovers”
• Midwest Finance Association, Las Vegas, Nevada. “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”

2009

• Financial Management Association, Reno, Nevada. "Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”
• Financial Management Association Europe, Turin, Italy. “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”
• British Accounting Association annual conference, Dundee, United Kingdom. “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”
  

2008

• Australasian Finance and Banking conference, Sydney, Australia. “Does the stock market compensate banks for diversifying into the insurance business?”
  

Selected other information

• Member of the Advisory Board of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group.
• Member of Scientific Committee of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) Conference, June 2012.
• Member of Scientific Committee of the Financial Management Association Asian (FMA Asia) Conference, July 2012.