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Economics and Finance
Greece
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
48
Citations
10391
World Ranking
1509
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Greece Leader Award

Overview

George Halkos is affiliated with the University of Thessaly in Greece, specializing primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Environmental Science. Their research spans a variety of interrelated subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering, Strategy and Management, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work often addresses topics such as Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth; Environmental Impact and Sustainability; Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies; Environmental Sustainability in Business; Climate Change Policy and Economics; Energy and Environment Impacts; and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

George Halkos has contributed numerous papers to scientific literature with recent publications including:

  • Reviewing Usage, Potentials, and Limitations of Renewable Energy Sources, 2020, Energies
  • Where do we stand on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals? An overview on progress, 2021, Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Evaluating the effect of economic crisis on energy poverty in Europe, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Influence of growth and urbanization on CO2 emissions: The moderating effect of foreign direct investment on energy use in BRICS, 2021, Sustainable Development
  • Corporate social responsibility: Trends in global reporting initiative standards, 2020, Economic Analysis and Policy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with George Halkos include:

  • Panagiotis-Stavros C. Aslanidis
  • Christina Bampatsou
  • George Ekonomou
  • Eleni-Christina Gkampoura
  • Jaime Moll

Their research is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Energies
  • Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Journal of Risk and Financial Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Efficiency measurement of the Greek commercial banks with the use of financial ratios: a data envelopment analysis approach

    George E. Halkos;Dimitrios S. Salamouris

  • Environmental Kuznets Curve for sulfur: evidence using GMM estimation and random coefficient panel data models

    George E. Halkos

  • The effect of stress and satisfaction on productivity

    George Halkos;Dimitrios Bousinakis

  • The effect of government expenditure on the environment:An empirical investigation

    George E. Halkos;Epameinondas Α. Paizanos

  • Reviewing Usage, Potentials, and Limitations of Renewable Energy Sources

    George E. Halkos;Eleni-Christina Gkampoura

  • Exploring the existence of Kuznets curve in countries' environmental efficiency using DEA window analysis

    George Emm. Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • Where do we stand on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals? An overview on progress

    George Halkos;Eleni-Christina Gkampoura

  • Evaluating the effect of economic crisis on energy poverty in Europe

    George E. Halkos;Eleni-Christina Gkampoura

  • Treating undesirable outputs in DEA: A critical review

    George Halkos;Kleoniki Natalia Petrou

  • Carbon dioxide emissions and governance: A nonparametric analysis for the G-20

    George E. Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • Estimating the degree of operating efficiency gains from a potential bank merger and acquisition: A DEA bootstrapped approach

    George E. Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • The effects of fiscal policy on CO2 emissions: Evidence from the U.S.A.

    George E. Halkos;Epameinondas Α. Paizanos

  • Influence of growth and urbanization on CO2 emissions: The moderating effect of foreign direct investment on energy use in BRICS

    Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente;Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente;Oana M. Driha;George Halkos;Shekhar Mishra

  • Assessing 28 EU member states' environmental efficiency in national waste generation with DEA

    George Halkos;Kleoniki Natalia Petrou

  • Productivity efficiency and firm size: An empirical analysis of foreign owned companies

    George Emmanuel Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • Corporate social responsibility: Trends in global reporting initiative standards

    George Halkos;Stylianos Nomikos

  • The impact of economic growth on environmental efficiency of the electricity sector: A hybrid window DEA methodology for the USA.

    George E. Halkos;Michael L. Polemis

  • Revisiting the relationship between corporate social responsibility and national culture: A quantitative assessment

    George Halkos;Antonis Skouloudis

  • Corporate social responsibility and innovative capacity: Intersection in a macro-level perspective

    George Halkos;Antonis Skouloudis;Antonis Skouloudis

  • A conditional nonparametric analysis for measuring the efficiency of regional public healthcare delivery: An application to Greek prefectures

    George E. Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • A conditional directional distance function approach for measuring regional environmental efficiency: Evidence from UK regions

    George Emm. Halkos;Nickolaos G. Tzeremes

  • Environmental Kuznets curves: Bayesian evidence from switching regime models

    George E. Halkos;Efthymios G. Tsionas

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunsuke Managi
Shunsuke Managi Kyushu University
Charles Perrings
Charles Perrings Arizona State University
G. Mihalakakou
G. Mihalakakou University of Patras
Clevo Wilson
Clevo Wilson Queensland University of Technology
Roman Matousek
Roman Matousek Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
David I. Stern
David I. Stern Australian National University

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