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Georgios Farfaras, PhD

  • Assistant Professor, Management

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Biography

Education

Ph.D (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Visiting Scholar (Columbia Business School)

Fields of specialization

  • Strategy & Managerial Economics

  • Corporate Governance

  • Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Research interests

Applications of Information Economics in Management, Incentives and Contracting, Performance Measurement, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Alliances, Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

Professional experience

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University, QC, Canada, January 2014 - June 2014
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, LeBow School of Business, Drexel University, PA, USA,           September 2013 – December 2013
  • Lecturer, Fox School of Business, Temple University, PA, USA, August 2010- August 2013
  • Lecturer, Fox School of Business, Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan,    January - February 2011 & 2012

Teaching Material

Farfaras G., (2013), "Contract Theory", Teaching Notes

Teaching activities

EMBA 642 Crafting and Implementing a Winning Strategy

MBA 622 Business Policy and Strategy

COMM 401 Strategy and Competition

ECON 201 Introduction to Microeconomics

ECON 501 Advanced Microeconomic Theory

ECON 326 Mathematics for Economists II

Publications

Farfaras, G. and P. Morgan (2020), "Termination Fees and Bilaterally Efficient Merger Contracts", Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 366-376. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1556

Invited Seminars

John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, CA, February 2014

Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Business, Hoboken, NJ, May 2013

Conference Participation

XIII Summer School on Accounting, Vienna, Austria, June, 2017

Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, June 2017

Conference on Research on Economic Theory &Econometrics, Tinos, Greece, July 2016

Telfer Annual Conference on Accounting and Finance, Ottawa, ON, May 2016

Annual Carnegie-Mellon Accounting Mini Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2014

Junior Accounting Theory Conference, Atlanta, GA, August 2014

American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2014

Conference on Research on Economic Theory & Econometrics, Milos, Greece, July 2014

Accounting Rookie Recruiting & Research Camp, Miami, FL, December 2013

Burton Workshop in Accounting, Columbia Business School, New York, November 2013

Junior Accounting Theory Conference, Anaheim, CA, August 2013

American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2013

Conference on Research on Economic Theory & Econometrics, Naxos, Greece, July 2013

AAA Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting, Parsippany, NJ, April 2013

Annual Carnegie-Mellon Accounting Mini Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2012

Junior Accounting Theory Conference, Washington, DC, August 2012

American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2012

Conference on Research on Economic Theory &Econometrics, Milos, Greece, July 2011

AAA Management Accounting Section (MAS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 2011

American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2010

Recognitions, Grants & Awards

John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Funding Initiative, January 2017

John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Supplementary Seed Funding, June 2016

State University of New York at Buffalo, Retention Award, June 2007

State University of New York at Buffalo, Teaching Assistantship & Tuition Waiver, 2006-2010

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