Σωτήριος Μπέλλος

Ο Σωτήριος Κ. Μπέλλος έλαβε το διδακτορικό του στα Οικονομικά από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Bath στη Μεγάλη Βρεττανία. Το ερευνητικό του έργο έχει δημοσιευθεί στο Bulletin of Economic Research, στο International Review of Applied Economics και σε άλλα διεθνή επιστημονικά περιοδικά. Η επαγγελματική του πορεία περιλαμβάνει 4 χρόνια στη βιομηχανία ως Μηχανολόγος Μηχανικός και 25 χρόνια στον Τραπεζικό κλάδο ως Οικονομολόγος, στη διάρκεια των οποίων έχει εργαστεί ως Αναλυτής Πιστοληπτικής Αξιολόγησης ΜΜΕ και Εταιρικών Πελατών και ως Relationship Manager για Corporate πελάτες σε μεγάλα ελληνικά τραπεζικά ιδρύματα.

• Business Economics (Executive MBA)
• Εμπορική και Επενδυτική Τραπεζική (M.Sc. in Banking and Finance)
• Εταιρική Χρηματοδότηση και Αποτίμηση (M.Sc. in Banking and Finance)
• Κανονιστική Τραπεζική και Χρηματοοικονομική Σταθερότητα (M.Sc. in Banking and Finance)
• Σύγχρονα Θέματα Ναυτιλίας και Διοίκησης Λιμένων (M.Sc in Shipping, Port Management and Logistics)
• Χρήμα και Τραπεζική (B.Sc FINENG)

• Προσδιοριστικοί Παράγοντες των Άμεσων Ξένων
• Επενδύσεων
• Αξιολόγηση των πολιτικών του ΔΝΤ
• Οικονομικά των Θεσμών
• Οικονομικά της Άμυνας
• Χρηματοοικονομική Μακροοικονομία
• Διεθνής Πολιτική Οικονομία
• Γεωπολιτική και Γεωοικονομία

Journals

Bellos, S., (2025), “Mackinder and Greece”, Etudes Balkaniques, 03-2025, https://doi.org/10.62761/645.EB.LXI3.13

Bellos, S., Golitsis, P., & Emmanouilidis, K. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Geopolitical Risks and Global Uncertainty on the EU-27 Economies. Journal of East-West Business, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669868.2025.2546297

Kladakis, G., Bellos, S.K. and Skouralis, A. (2023), “Societal trust and bank opacity”, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFRC-05-2023-0073

Bellos, S. K., & Golitsis, P. (2023). The Nexus between Financial and Investment developments and State Capacity. The case of G-20. Journal of Government and Economics, 11, 100081.

Kladakis, G., Chen, L; & S. Bellos, (2023), “2022 CCPF- JIFMIM Special Theme on “Sustainable Finance” Ethical bank disclosures and liquidity creation”, Journal of Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101754

Golitsis, P., Gkassis, P, & S. K. Bellos, (2022), “Dynamic Spiilovers and linkages between gold, crude oil, S&P 500, and other economic and financial variables. Evidence from USA”, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2022.101785

Kladakis, G., Chen, L; & S. Bellos, (2022), “Wholesale Funding and Liquidity Creation”, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-022-01081-9

Kladakis, G., Chen, L; & S. Bellos, (2022), “Bank Regulation, Supervision and  Liquidity Creation”, Journal of International Money and Finance, 124(2):102629, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102629

Kladakis, G., Chen, L; & S. Bellos, (2021), “Multiple credit ratings and liquidity creation”, Finance Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102313

Fassas, A., Bellos, S.& G. Kladakis, (2021), “Corporate liquidity, supply chain and cost issues awareness within the Covid-19 context: evidence from us management reports’ textual analysis”, Corporate Governance, International Journal of Business in Society, https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-09-2020-0399

Kladakis, G., Chen, L., & S., Bellos, (2020), “Bank Asset and Informational Quality”, Journal of International Financial Markets, 69, 101256, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2020.101256

Golitsis, P., Bellos, S., Fassas, A., & S., Demiralay, (2020), “The Spillover Effect of Euribor on Southeastern European Economies: A Global VAR Approach”, Journal of East-West Business, https://doi.org/10.1080/10669868.2020.1826383

Bellos, S., (2019), “Military expenditure, economic growth and development in transition economies: A panel VAR GMM approach”, Applied Economics Quarterly, 65(3), 139-187

Bellos, S., (2019), “Natural Resources, Energy Dependency and their association with Institutional and Growth – related variables in the Black Sea and Southeast European region”, Applied Economics Quarterly, 65 (1), pp 1-43

Kuzman, T., Bellos, S., & K., Djulic, (2018), “Determinants of innovation-based sustainability in transition and developing economies”, Ekonomske Teme ISSN 0353-8648

Kuzman, T., Talavera, O., & S., K., Bellos (2018), “Politically Induced Board Turnover, Ownership Arrangements and Performance of SOEs”, Corporate Governance – An International Revue, 26, pp 160-179, https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12238

Bellos, S, (2018), “The European Financial Crisis and Germany. The Geopolitical implications through the prism of Halford Mackinder’s theory”, Foreign Affairs – The Hellenic Edition, February – March Edition

Bellos, S, (2017), “The Relationship between Military Expenditure and Certain Growth and Development Related Variables in Transition Economies: A Panel Data Analysis”, Applied Economics and Finance, 4(5), https://doi.org/10.11114/aef.v4i5.2517

Bellos, S., (2016), “IMF programs and policies assessment in the transition economies during the transition and the post-transition period”, Journal of Heterodox Economies, 3(2)

Makedonas, El., Bellos, S. & T. Subasat, (2015), “IMF Lending and Poverty in Developing countries”, Journal of Heterodox Economics, doi:10.1515/jheec-2015-0015

Subasat, T., & S. Bellos, (2013), ‘Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: A Panel Gravity Model Approach’, Journal of Management and Sustainability, 3(4), pp 151-156

Bellos, S., & T. Subasat, (2013), “Governance and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: A Panel Gravity Model Approach”, Latin American Journal of Economics, Vol. 50, No 1, pp 107-131

Bellos, S., & T. Subasat, (2012), “Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Gravity Model Approach”, Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 64, No 4, pp 565-574

Bellos, S., & T. Subasat, (2012), “Governance and Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Gravity Model Approach”, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 26, No 3, pp 303-328

Subasat, T., & S. Bellos, (2011), ‘Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Gravity Model Approach”, Empirical Economics Letters, Vol. 10, No 7, pp 697-704

Subasat, T., & S. Bellos, (2011) ‘Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: A Panel Gravity Model Approach’, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31 no.3 pp. 2053-2065

Books

Μπέλλος, Σ., Κ.. (2025), Διεθνής Πολιτική Οικονομία και Ποσοτικές Μέθοδοι Ανάλυσης, Εκδόσεις Έννοια, Αθήνα, ISBN: 9789606410871

Chapters in Books

Bellos, S.K., Serafini, G.O. (2024). Skills Gap between Eastern and Southeastern Europe SMEs and their North-Central, Western, and Northern European Counterparts: The Role of Financial, Institutional, and Demographic Contexts. In: Aranitou, V., Manioudis, M., Angelakis, A. (eds) The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Palgrave Studies in the Future of European Societies and Economies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74554-6_5

Bellos, S. (2024). A Review of Sustainable Development’s Political Critiques. In G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis, Sustainable Economic Development: Political Economy & Economics Pluralism, Routledge, London and New York (forthcoming in 2024).

Bellos, (2013). FDI Determinants in Transition Countries. The Role and the Impact of Transition Speed. In: George Papanikos, Essays on Growth, Development and Finance, Athens: Atiner, pp: 127-143

Conferences

2025 2^nd Annual Forsvarets ForskningsInstitut (Norwegian Defense Research Establishement FFI) Research Workshop on Defense Economics, Oslo. Paper Presentation: “Military Expenditure and Institutional Quality in the European Union”, May 2025

2025 9^th International Conference on Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance (AMEF) , Thessaloniki, Paper presented: “Dynamic Spillovers and Time-Varying Connectedness between Geopolitical Risk, Energy Prices, Supply Chain Pressures, Business Confidence, and Industrial Production in the EU27”, April 2025.

2024 9^th IMAEF – International Meeting on Economics and Finance – Argostoli, Kefalonia June 2024. Paper presentation: Security and Stability Implications of Refugee Flows in Europe: A Panel VAR analysis

2021 10^th International Conference Financial Engineering and Banking  Society (FEBS), Financial Stability and Sustainability, Université de Lille, Bank Regulation, Supervision and Liquidity Creation (with George Kladakis and Lei Chen)

2019 International Conference on International Business (ICIB) / ICIB 2019/20, Thessaloniki, Greece, 23rd to 26th May 2019, Golitsis, P., Bellos, S.K., and Alexandridis, A. (2021). Is EMU good for the Southeastern European Economies? A G-VAR model.

2018 17^th Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association Conference – Athens December 2018. Paper Presentation: Bank Capital and Liquidity Creation

2016 6th IMAEF – International Meeting on Economics and Finance – Corfu June 2016. Paper presentation: The Impact of EU and Common Currency Area accession on the EU members Terms of Trade. A Panel Data Analysis

2016  2^nd International Conference in Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance, University of Macedonia, 6-7^th May 2016 – Ownership Arrangement and financial performance: The Case of State-Owned enterprises in former Yugoslavian countries

2015  White Rose Business and Management, Accounting and Finance and Work Psychology Pathway Annual Conference 2015, University of Sheffield, 11-12th June 2015. Paper: Innovation based Sustainability of State-Owned Enterprises: Do Corruption and State Share create an impact?

2014  13^th EEFS – European Economic and Financial Society – Thessaloniki June 2014. Paper Presentation: The Relation between Military Expenditure and Certain Aspects of Economic Performance and Governance in the Transition Economies – A Panel Data Analysis

2013 12^th EEFS – European Economic and Financial Society – Berlin June 2013. Paper:  IMF programs and policies assessment in the transition economies during the transition and the post-transition period.

2010  5^th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Implications, 26-29 July 2010, Athens. FDI Determinants in Transition Countries. The Role and the Impact of Transition Speed.