:Draft:George E. Halkos

George Halkos was born in Marousi and raised in Vyronas, though his roots are from Pyrgos, Tinos. He graduated from the 1st High School of Vyronas. He resides permanently in Athens, is married, and has two children: a daughter who works as a psychologist and a son who works as an environmental engineer.

He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Piraeus, where he was recognized as the valedictorian of the class of 1987. He then pursued postgraduate and doctoral studies at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He obtained a Master’s degree (MSc) in Market Analysis, Finance, and Investment Appraisal, and completed his PhD in 1993 with the thesis titled “Economic perspectives of the acid rain problem in Europe,” which focused on cost-effectiveness analysis and the use of mathematical models and game theory as applied to Environmental Economics. His doctoral studies were supervised by Professor John P. Hutton, with co-supervision by Professors Paul Burrows and Mike Chadwick.

George Halkos has extensive experience as a principal investigator and scientific collaborator at various research and academic institutions, including the University of Piraeus, the Athens University of Economics and Business (formerly ASOEE), the University of the Aegean, the Stockholm Environment Institute, Panteion University, the Athens University of Applied Sciences (now University of West Attica), among others.

He has participated in projects funded by the European Union, including the PHARE programs (focused on the unification of statistical indicators and systems of EU candidate countries, such as Romania), the ODEMM project, the SYNERGASIA 2011 program of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, as well as projects of EUROSTAT and the Greek Ministry of Employment.

Additionally, from 2022 to 2024, he served as a lead researcher at the Research Center for Innovation in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies – “Athena,” in the ARSINOE and SEAwise research projects. He was also involved in the PEERS, ARSINOE, and Impetus projects at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Since 2023, he has been teaching at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in the professional training program on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance: Management Tools and Strategic Planning, as part of the NKUA Executive Education program.

He has presented scientific papers either as a speaker or keynote speaker at international conferences, such

• Royal Economic Society.
• EniS.p.A. (multinational company in Rome) and the European Economics and Financial Centre in London
• National Statistics Conference from the Hellenic Statistical Institute.
• European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE).
• International Conference in Applied Macro and Empirical Finance, April 21-22, 2017, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).
• International Conference on Energy, Finance and the Macroeconomy (ICEFM)) in Montpellier Business School, France.
• Conference of the Scientific Society of Financial Engineering and Banking 18-19 December 2017 at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• The Association for Public Economic Theory, APET.
• Professional Systemics in Action from the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies, HSSS.
• Ιnternational Network for Economic Research (INFER).
• Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics from the European Society of Computational Methods in Sciences, Engineering and Technology.
• Statistical Office of the European Communities, EUROSTAT.

George Halkos has published more than 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He has also written and edited the following academic textbooks which are used as basic teaching materials in undergraduate and postgraduate programs of Greek universities.

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (2021), 2 Editions Publ DISIGMA.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=Οικονομική Φυσικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος |publisher=ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ |isbn=978-960-9495-84-4 |location= |page=}}
• STATISTICS: Theory & Practice (2020) 5 Editions, Publ DISIGMA.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=Στατιστική: Θεωρία και πράξη (5η έκδοση) |publisher=ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ |isbn=978-618-202-232-0 |location= |page=}}
• Econometrics: Theory & Practice (2019) 2 Editions, Publ DISIGMA.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=Οικονομετρία: Θεωρία και Πράξη (2η έκδοση) |publisher=ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ |isbn=978-960-9495-58-5 |location= |page=}}
• Computational Econometrics (2020), Publ DISIGMA.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=Υπολογιστική Οικονομετρία |publisher=ΔΙΣΙΓΜΑ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ |isbn=978-618-202-015-9 |location= |page=}}
• Methods of valuation and management (2013), Liberal Books.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝ: ΜΕΘΟΔΟΙ ΑΠΟΤΙΜΗΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΗΣ |publisher=Liberal Books |isbn=9786188008465 |location= |page=}}
• Econometrics: Theory and Practice: Instructions in using Eviews, Minitab, SPSS and Excel (2007), Gutenberg.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΕΤΡΙΑ: ΘΕΩΡΙΑ, ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΧΡΗΣΗ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΩΝ ΣΕ Η/Υ |publisher=Gutenberg |isbn=9789600113945 |location= |page=}}
• Econometrics: Theory and Practice: Instructions in using Eviews, Minitab, SPSS and Excel (2007), Publications: V. Gkiourdas.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΕΤΡΙΑ: Θεωρία και πράξη: Οδηγίες χρήσης σε Eviews, Minitab, SPSS & Excel |publisher=Εκδόσεις: Β. Γκιούρδας |isbn=960-387-528-7 |location= |page=}}
• Statistics: Theory, Applications and Use of Statistical Programs  in PCs (2006), Publications: Tipothito.{{Cite book |last=Χάλκος |first=Γεώργιος |title=ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ: ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΧΡΗΣΗ ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΩΝ ΣΕ Η/Υ |publisher=ΤΥΠΩΘΗΤΩ |isbn=9789604023943 |location= |page=}}

• Risk and Financial Consequences (2023), MDPI.{{Cite book |last=Halkos |first=George |title=Risk and Financial Consequences |date=31 July 2023 |publisher=MDPI |isbn=978-3-0365-8369-3 |location= |page=}}
• Current Issues in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (2023), MDPI.{{Cite book |last=Halkos |first=George |title=Current Issues in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics |date=16 January 2023 |publisher=MDPI |isbn=978-3-0365-6259-9 |location= |page=}}
• Modeling Energy–Environment–Economy Interrelations, Energies (2023), MDPI.{{Cite book |last=Halkos |first=George |title=Modeling Energy–Environment–Economy Interrelations |publisher=MDPI |location=978-3-0365-8332-7 |page=}}
• Assessment of Energy-Environment-Economy Interrelationships (2020), Energies, MDPI.{{Cite book |last=Halkos |first=George |title=Assessment of Energy Environment Economy Interrelationships |publisher=MDPI |isbn=9783039238090 |location= |page=}}
• Quantitative Methods for Environmental Economics and Environmental Management (1994), Department of the Environment, University of York.

He worked abroad between 1989 and 1991 as a research associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute of the University of York, where he later served as a Lecturer between 1992 and 1994 and as a Visiting Professor in 1998 in the Department of Environmental Economics and Environmental Management of the same university. He also collaborated as a research fellow between 1996 and 1997 at Swansea University.

In Greece, he served as a contract Lecturer between 1997 and 1999 at the University of the Aegean. Subsequently, he has taught and continues to teach as a Visiting Professor in the postgraduate programs of the Athens University of Economics and Business (2010–2025), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2023–2025), among others. The wide range of postgraduate courses he teaches includes subjects such as Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, International Economics and Finance, Investment Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Quantitative Methods in Environment, Energy, and the Economy, and Education for Sustainability and the Environment. At the undergraduate level, he has taught: Econometrics I and II, Statistics I and II, Environmental Economics, Microeconomics III, Mathematics I and II, and Time Series Analysis.

His career at the University of Thessaly began in 1999 as a contract Lecturer, followed by appointment as Assistant Professor in 2001, Associate Professor in 2005, and since 2012, he has been a full Professor. Notably, he served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Economics and as an alternate member of the Senate of the University of Thessaly for four academic years (2009–2013). He was also the founding Director of the Master's Program titled “Applied Economics” in the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly, which he organized and led for five academic years.

Since 2008, as the Director of the Laboratory of Operations Research at the University of Thessaly, he founded the international conference "Economics of Natural Resource and the Environmental" (ENVECON), which since 2014 has focused on issues such as climate crisis, circular economy, biodiversity, and disasters. He also founded and organized the first two "Applied Economics" conferences of the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly.

His work has been recognized, for instance, in testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis using advanced econometric models, such as switching regime models with cross-sectional data, employing Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for computation, as well as the generalized method of moments and the random coefficients method in dynamic panel data analysis, as early as 2001. {{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Tsionas |first2=Efthymios G. |date=2001-03-01 |title=Environmental Kuznets curves: Bayesian evidence from switching regime models |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140988300000633 |journal=Energy Economics |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=191–210 |doi=10.1016/S0140-9883(00)00063-3 |bibcode=2001EneEc..23..191H |issn=0140-9883}}{{Cite journal |last=Halkos |first=George E. |date=October 2003 |title=Environmental Kuznets Curve for sulfur: evidence using GMM estimation and random coefficient panel data models |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1355770X03000317/type/journal_article |journal=Environment and Development Economics |language=en |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=581–601 |doi=10.1017/S1355770X0300317 |bibcode=2003EDevE...8..581H |issn=1355-770X}} In subsequent years, he has tested this hypothesis in other critical sectors, such as tourism, industry, and waste management, and has also extended his work to the realm of fiscal policy.

He has also contributed significantly to Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) across various sectors including banking, healthcare, energy, industry, education, sports, environmental efficiency, and waste management, especially through methodological advances for addressing undesirable outputs.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Aslanidis |first2=Panagiotis Stavros C. |date=2023-03-01 |title=New circular economy perspectives on measuring sustainable waste management productivity |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592623000012 |journal=Economic Analysis and Policy |volume=77 |pages=764–779 |doi=10.1016/j.eap.2023.01.001 |issn=0313-5926}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=Petrou |first2=Kleoniki Natalia |date=June 2019 |title=Treating undesirable outputs in DEA: A critical review |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0313592618304053 |journal=Economic Analysis and Policy |language=en |volume=62 |pages=97–104 |doi=10.1016/j.eap.2019.01.005}}

Environmental valuation has been a major area of his focus. He has developed econometric models for all three market types (direct, surrogate, and hypothetical) for the valuing and costing of environmental goods and services. His key contribution in environmental valuation lies in the use of econometric tools for estimating the value of non-market environmental goods and for assessing environmental impacts and integrating them into decision-making processes.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=Leonti |first2=Aikaterini |last3=Sardianou |first3=Eleni |date=2020-06-11 |title=Assessing the Preservation of Parks and Natural Protected Areas: A Review of Contingent Valuation Studies |journal=Sustainability |language=en |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=4784 |doi=10.3390/su12114784 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020Sust...12.4784H |issn=2071-1050}}{{Cite journal |last1=Koundouri |first1=Phoebe |last2=Halkos |first2=George |last3=Landis |first3=Conrad Felix Michel |last4=Alamanos |first4=Angelos |date=2023-12-20 |title=Ecosystem services valuation for supporting sustainable life below water |journal=Sustainable Earth Reviews |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=19 |doi=10.1186/s42055-023-00068-1 |doi-access=free |issn=2520-8748 |pmc=11728687 |pmid=39807352|bibcode=2023SuERv...6...19K }}{{Cite journal |last1=Koundouri |first1=Phoebe |last2=Halkos |first2=George |last3=Landis |first3=Conrad |last4=Dellis |first4=Konstantinos |last5=Stratopoulou |first5=Artemis |last6=Plataniotis |first6=Angelos |last7=Chioatto |first7=Elisa |date=2023-07-26 |title=Valuation of marine ecosystems and Sustainable Development Goals |journal=Frontiers in Environmental Economics |language=English |volume=2 |doi=10.3389/frevc.2023.1160118 |doi-access=free |issn=2813-2823}}

More recently, he has contributed to the field of environmental psychology through advanced analyses (e.g., Structural Equation Modeling, SEM), examining the normative beliefs of value, identity, and habit. He has explored the predictive power of nature connectedness, ecological worldview, and environmental concern in valuation studies.{{Cite journal |last1=Gkargkavouzi |first1=Anastasia |last2=Halkos |first2=George |last3=Matsiori |first3=Steriani |date=2019-09-01 |title=Environmental behavior in a private-sphere context: Integrating theories of planned behavior and value belief norm, self-identity and habit |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921344919300424 |journal=Resources, Conservation and Recycling |volume=148 |pages=145–156 |doi=10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.01.039 |bibcode=2019RCR...148..145G |issn=0921-3449}} He has also contributed to behavioral economics and occupational psychology through econometric studies aimed at eliciting information about the effects of factors such as stress and satisfaction on employee productivity.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=Bousinakis |first2=Dimitrios |date=2010-01-01 |title=The effect of stress and satisfaction on productivity |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/17410401011052869/full/html |journal=International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management |volume=59 |issue=5 |pages=415–431 |doi=10.1108/17410401011052869 |issn=1741-0401}}

His research extends extensively to the evaluation of energy efficiency, the impact of renewable energy use on the economy, modeling of energy consumption along with environmental impacts, and the role of energy markets and regulatory frameworks, as well as issues related to sustainable development and the circular economy.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Gkampoura |first2=Eleni-Christina |date=2020-06-05 |title=Reviewing Usage, Potentials, and Limitations of Renewable Energy Sources |journal=Energies |language=en |volume=13 |issue=11 |pages=2906 |doi=10.3390/en13112906 |doi-access=free |issn=1996-1073}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Gkampoura |first2=Eleni-Christina |date=2021-07-01 |title=Evaluating the effect of economic crisis on energy poverty in Europe |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364032121002732 |journal=Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews |volume=144 |pages=110981 |doi=10.1016/j.rser.2021.110981 |bibcode=2021RSERv.14410981H |issn=1364-0321}} Regarding the green transition, he has also studied its social impacts, such as the phenomenon of energy poverty. In addition, he has developed control curves for various air pollutants—such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides and F-gases (HFCs, PFCs, SF₆)—and based on these curves and game theory, he has proposed cost-effective strategies in Europe, distinguishing between first-best and second-best solutions.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Paizanos |first2=Epameinondas Α. |date=2013-07-01 |title=The effect of government expenditure on the environment:An empirical investigation |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921800913001316 |journal=Ecological Economics |volume=91 |pages=48–56 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.04.002 |bibcode=2013EcoEc..91...48H |issn=0921-8009}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Paizanos |first2=Epameinondas Α. |date=2016-01-01 |title=The effects of fiscal policy on CO2 emissions: Evidence from the U.S.A. |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301421515301634 |journal=Energy Policy |volume=88 |pages=317–328 |doi=10.1016/j.enpol.2015.10.035 |bibcode=2016EnPol..88..317H |issn=0301-4215}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=and Paizanos |first2=Epameinondas A. |date=2017-01-02 |title=The channels of the effect of government expenditure on the environment: evidence using dynamic panel data |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09640568.2016.1145107 |journal=Journal of Environmental Planning and Management |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=135–157 |doi=10.1080/09640568.2016.1145107 |bibcode=2017JEPM...60..135H |issn=0964-0568}}

His contribution to climate crisis decision-making is multifaceted, as he has worked on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change. His research focuses on the economic and social impacts of climate change and the development of policies to address it, particularly emphasizing the resilience of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to natural disasters.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=and Skouloudis |first2=Antonis |date=2020-01-02 |title=Investigating resilience barriers of small and medium-sized enterprises to flash floods: a quantile regression of determining factors |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17565529.2019.1596782 |journal=Climate and Development |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=57–66 |doi=10.1080/17565529.2019.1596782 |bibcode=2020CliDe..12...57H |issn=1756-5529}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=Skouloudis |first2=Antonis |last3=Malesios |first3=Chrisovalantis |last4=Jones |first4=Nikoleta |date=2020-05-29 |title=A Hierarchical Multilevel Approach in Assessing Factors Explaining Country-Level Climate Change Vulnerability |journal=Sustainability |language=en |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=4438 |doi=10.3390/su12114438 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2020Sust...12.4438H |issn=2071-1050}}{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George |last2=Zisiadou |first2=Argyro |date=2019-07-01 |title=Examining the Natural Environmental Hazards Over the Last Century |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-018-0037-2 |journal=Economics of Disasters and Climate Change |language=en |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=119–150 |doi=10.1007/s41885-018-0037-2 |bibcode=2019EDCC....3..119H |issn=2511-1299}}

He has been a pioneer in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the transition toward environmental and social corporate governance (ESG), combining academic research with practical implementation in business settings. His emphasis lies in integrating CSR and ESG into sustainable development strategies and assessing their impact on business performance and practice, thereby strengthening the connection between theory and application. He has also presented policy proposals based on econometric tools regarding the impact of direct and indirect government spending and fiscal policy on the environment and pollution control.{{Cite journal |last1=Halkos |first1=George E. |last2=Evangelinos |first2=Konstantinos I. |date=2002 |title=Determinants of environmental management systems standards implementation: evidence from Greek industry |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.341 |journal=Business Strategy and the Environment |language=en |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=360–375 |doi=10.1002/bse.341 |bibcode=2002BSEnv..11..360H |issn=1099-0836}}{{Cite journal |last1=Evangelinos |first1=Konstantinos I. |last2=Halkos |first2=George E. |date=September 2002 |title=Implementation of environmental management systems standards: important factors in corporate decision making |url=https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1464333202001030 |journal=Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management |volume=04 |issue=3 |pages=311–328 |doi=10.1142/S1464333202001030 |issn=1464-3332}}

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