2024 ECO PRO

(Note 1: the program is organized along time slots and not according to common theme)
(Note 2: at the end of each session questions and discussions will follow)

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Monday 1 July 2024

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08.30-09.30
Registration

09:30-10:00
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:

• Gregory T. Papanikos, President, The Athens Institute.

10:00-11:30 Session 1
Session 1a Moderator: John Kallianiotis, Professor, University of Scranton, USA.	Session 1b Moderator:  Maria Fregidou-Malama, Professor, University of Gävle, Sweden.	Session 1c Moderator:  Timothy M. Young, Director, Center for Data Science (CDS), Emeritus Professor, The University of Tennessee, USA & CEO and President, T.M. Young Institute, LLC, USA.
Alka Obadic, Full Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Viktor Viljevac, Assistant Professor, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Title: Estimating Labour Market Matching Efficiency at Different Educational Levels. Joerg Heining, Senior Researcher, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany. Sydnee Caldwell, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Ingrid Haegele, Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Muenchen (LMU), Germany. Title: Bargaining in the Labor Market. Elizabeth Bucacos, Researcher, Central Bank of Uruguay, Uruguay. Title: Labor Market Slack and Monetary Policy in An Emerging Economy: A Gender Approach. Medhat Alsafadi, Assistant Professor, Lewis University, USA. Apostolos Xanthopoulos, Assistant Professor, Lewis University, USA. Title: Outperformance versus Due Diligence: Which Produces Investment Winners?	Cecile Schultz, Professor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Kelebogile Madiba, Lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Leigh-Anne Paul Dachapalli, Senior Lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Francisca du Plessis, Retired Lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Title: The Future of Work Study in the South African Context. Tien-Yu Lin, Professor, Sanming University, China. Title: The Optimal Replenishment and Packaging Policies for Deteriorating Items with Logistics Loss. Michael Mikhael, MBA Student, Lebanese American University, Lebanon. Manal Yunis, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Information Technology and Operations Management, Lebanese American University, Lebanon. Title: Impact of ICT on Business Continuity and Sustainable Performance: Mediating Role of Digital Transformation Culture. Francine Vachon, Associate Professor, Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Canada. Meet Masrani, Researcher, Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Canada. Title: Business Startups: Gaining Intelligence from Open-Access Business Qualitative Datasets.	Shunpu Zhang, Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science and Professor, University of Central Florida, USA. Title: Ranking by Pairwise Comparison with Preference of Orders. Liang-Ching Lin, Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Title: LIMOS – LightGBM Interval Merton’s One-period-portfolio Selection. Philippe Thomas, Associate Professor, University of Lorraine / CRAN, France. Title: Adjusting the Balance between Alpha and Beta Risks in NN Classifiers. Mihail Mateev, Chief Assistant Professor, UACEG – Sofia, Bulgaria. Title: Implementing Image Analysis with Azure AI Vision and Open AI for Predictive Analysis.

 

11:30-13:00 Session 2
Session 2a Moderator: Pascal Ghazalian, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada.	Session 2b Moderator: Francine Vachon, Associate Professor, Goodman School of Business, Brock University, Canada.	Session 2c Moderator: Shunpu Zhang, Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science and Professor, University of Central Florida, USA.
Magdalena Ligus, Professor, Wrocław University of Economics and Business, Poland. Piotr Peternek, Associate Professor, Wrocław University of Economics and Business, Poland. Title: Sustainable Energy Development Strategy for Poland. Mengdie Qu, PhD Student, Chongqing University, China. Feng Wang, Professor, Chongqing University, China. Title: Income Inequality, Energy Poverty, and Carbon Emissions: A Cross-Country Analysis. Nicolaus Tideman, Professor, Virginia Tech University, USA. Title: Redistributive Consequences of a Global Carbon Tax with Global Distribution of the Revenue. Xiaowen Chen, PhD Candidate, Chongqing University, China. Title: The Threshold Effect of Digital Service Trade on Carbon Emissions in RCEP Countries.	Martha Rivera Pesquera, Professor, IPADE Business School, Mexico. Title: Transforming a Commodity into a Premium Brand: Avocados from Mexico Case. Frederic Jallat, Professor, ESCP Business School, France. Title: Symbolic Brand Positioning on the Music Streaming Market: An Axiological Framework. Maria Fregidou-Malama, Researcher, University of Gävle, Sweden. Title: Impact of Institutional Barriers on International Marketing of Healthcare Services: Elekta in the Emerging Market of South Africa. Oksana Domina, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. Title: Marketing Development in Finland and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis.	Codruta Stoica, Professor, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. Title: On Evolution Cocycles Associated to Control Systems. Dimitris Christodoulou, Teaching Professor (Retired), University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. Title: Euclid Absent from the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Nadya Morozova, Researcher, CNRS, Institute Gustave-Roussy, France. Title: Developmental Graphs Comparison Strategy for Analysis of Pattern Formation and Phylogeny.

 

13:00-14:30 Session 3
Session 3a Moderator: Elizabeth Bucacos, Researcher, Central Bank of Uruguay, Uruguay.	Session 3b Moderator: Martha Rivera Pesquera, Professor, IPADE Business School, Mexico.	Session 3c Moderator: Codruta Simona Stoica, Head, Mathematics & Statistics Unit, The Athens Institute & Professor and Vice-Rector, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania.
John Kallianiotis, Professor, University of Scranton, USA. Title: The Effectiveness and Efficiency of the New Public Policies. Nemanja Antic, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, USA. Title: Selected Facts. Mohamad Husam Helmi, Assistant Professor, Rabdan Academy, UAE. Title: The Time-varying Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks on the Cryptocurrency Uncertainty Indices. Peter Lesko, Assistant Professor, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Title: Measuring Current Regional Disparities in The European Union and the Future of EU Cohesion Policy. Merita Pelaj, Master Student, University of Prishtina, Kosovo. Avdullah Hoti, Professor, University of Prishtina, Kosovo. Title: Labor Market, Gender Differences and Family Policy.	Karel Lessing, Senior Lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Jean Oberholzer, Student, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Cecile Schultz, Professor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Title: Contributing and Constraining Factors Regarding the Implementation of Human Resource Management on Boarding during the COVID-19 Pandemic at the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa. Pieter Smit, Head, Department People Management and Development, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Cecile Schultz, Professor, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Ofhani Tshila, Student, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Title: Perceived Factors of the Performance Management and Development System of a South African State-Owned Company. Lize van Hoek, Senior Lecturer, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Shalane Otto, Student, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Title: The Impact of Leadership on the Grit of International Migrated Teachers.	Gordon Brooks, Professor, Ohio University, USA. Nina Adjanin, Assistant Professor, Northwest Missouri State University, USA. Title: Using Human-Friendly Scheffé Comparisons to Explore Group Differences in One-way ANOVA. Jian Song, Professor, OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. Title: Application of Statistics in Evaluation of State of Health and Lifetime of Electrical and Electronic Components. Kelvin Tsoi, Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Title: Long-term Benefits of Blood Pressure Management on Memory Complaint Reduction: A Time Series Analysis in a 4-year Prospective Cohort in Hong Kong.

14:30-15:30 Lunch

15:30-17:00 Session 4
Session 4a Moderator: Paul Contoyannis, Head, Health Economics & Management Unit, the Athens Institute & Associate Professor, McMaster University, Canada.	Session 4b Moderator: Gordon Brooks, Professor, Ohio University, USA.
Joseph Zeira, Emeritus Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Title: The Rise of the Educated Class. Adam Suchecki, Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, Poland. Title: The Impact of Social Transfers on the Consumption of Cultural Goods – The Evidence from Poland. Rozenda Hendrickse, Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Title: Causal Theories Explaining Erosion in South African State and Public Services: A Theoretical Overview. Yajie Wang, PhD Student, Fudan University, China. Dan Li, Professor, Fudan University, China. Title: The Role of Rumors in the Domestic Sovereign Debt Market: Evidence from Prewar China.	Viktoria Taroudaki, Associate Professor, Eastern Washington University, USA. Michael Winer, Associate Professor, Eastern Washington University, USA. Michael Battista, EHE Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Education, Ohio State University, USA. Title: Using an Online Dynamic Geometry Curriculum to Gain Insights into Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Learning of the Properties of Quadrilaterals. Mahsa Allahbakhshi, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Title: Pedagogical Innovation to Enhance Mathematical Learning and Cross-Disciplinary Skills in Incoming Mathematics Faculty Students. Carlos Rojas, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Title: The Academic Portfolio as an Assessment Purpose-Driven Tool in the Training of Primary School Teachers in Mathematics. Ivonne Pallares-Vega, Professor, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico. Title: Some Thoughts on Teaching Set Theory.

20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)

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Tuesday 2 July 2024

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09:00-10:30 Session 5
Session 5a Moderator: Matthew Shi, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.	Session 5b Moderator: Joseph Zeira, Emeritus Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.	Session 5c Moderator: Mahsa Allahbakhshi, Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.
Pascal Ghazalian, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Title: The Effects of the Extended Market Size of Regional Trade Blocs on FDI Inflows: A Dynamic Panel Analysis. Larry Qiu, Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Qing Liu, Professor, Renmin University of China, China. Stephen Yeaple, Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Title: Learning to Export like China: From Processing Trade to Ordinary Trade. Joydeb Sasmal, Professor (Retired), Vidyasagar University, India. Title: Structural Change, Growth and the Increasing Service Trade in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Karina Manrique Lopez, Assistant Teacher, Francisco José de Caldas District University, Colombia. Nicolas Marciales Parra, Assistant Professor, University of Santo Tomas, Colombia. Title: Analysis and Construction of Indicators for Public Investment in Colombia.	Michael MacColl, Professor, Vancouver Island University, Canada. Title: Re-Thinking Strategy Formulation. Jason Moschella, Assistant Professor, HEC Montreal, Canada. Title: Do Insiders Follow their Competitors’ Trades? Peter Tingling, Associate Professor, Beedie School of Business – Simon Fraser University, Canada. Kamal Masri, Senior Lecturer, Beedie School of Business – Simon Fraser University, Canada. Stephen Spector, PhD Student, Beedie School of Business – Simon Fraser University, Canada. Title: Covid Asymmetry – Hardly an Ill Wind. Chux Gervase Iwu, Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Title: Gendering [Female] Entrepreneurship Conversations – Leadership, Power and Culture Conundrum. Parbudyal Singh, Professor, York University, Canada. Title: Green Human Resource Management and Firm Performance.	Fawzi Benmessaoud, AI Program Director, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA. Mohamed Habib Agrebi, Researcher, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA. Title: FazBoard: An AI-Educational Hybrid Intelligent Teaching & Learning System. Evangelos Xevelonakis, Head of Center for Data Science & Technology, HWZ University of Applied Science, Switzerland. Title: Identifying Sustainability Efforts in Company’s Reports Using Text Mining and Machine Learning. Yun Zhou, Associate Professor, National University of Defense Technology, China. Title: CycleTTA: Continuous Cyclical Test Time Domain Adaptation. Craig Teerlink, Assistant Professor, VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure, USA. Title: Development of a Machine Learning Approach to Identify Veterans Carrying the V142I Variant in the US Veterans Administration Healthcare Network. Thomas Fehlmann, Senior Researcher, Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland. Eberhard Kranich, Senior Researcher, Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland. Title: How to Teach Literacy to Artificial Neural Networks.

 

10:30-12:00 Session 6
Session 6a Moderator: Byasdeb Dasgupta, Professor, University of Kalyani, India.	Session 6b Moderator: Jason Moschella, Assistant Professor, HEC Montreal, Canada.	Session 6c Moderator: Viktoria Taroudaki, Associate Professor, Eastern Washington University, USA.
Derek Brewin, Professor and Head, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada. Stavroula Malla, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Title: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Biotechnology in Canada. Jorge Ivan Bula-Escobar, Professor, National University of Colombia, Colombia. Giovany Armando Astroz-Marin, Master Student, Higher School of Public Administration, Colombia. Title: The Bioeconomy as an Option for Economic Development. Matthew Shi, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Shuangda Wang, PhD Student, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Title: Innovation or Imitation? Effects of Public Health Insurance on Pharmaceutical Development in China. Lingyun Huang, Professor, Chongqing University, China. Yanjun Zou, PhD Student, Chongqing University, China. Title: The Inequality Effect of Industrial Robots: Evidence from Working Hours.	Patrick Vyncke, Full Professor, Ghent University, Belgium. Title: Between the Central and the Peripheral Route: Investigating the Effectiveness of Communicative Nudging as a Third Advertising Strategy. Lance Gentry, Professor, University of Mary Washington, USA. Title: Improving Text Survey Response Rates by Timing. Ahmed Khalil Ben Ayed, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada. Marc Alexandre Tomiuk, Associate Professor, HEC Montréal, Canada. Title: Service Encounter Toxicity and Role Maintenance: A Moderated Mediation Model of Perfectionistic Self-Presentation and Difficulty to Maintain Display Rules.	Aleksandra Kostic, Full Professor, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Valentina Timotic, Assistant Professor, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Izet Horman, Full Professor, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Title: Improving Variational Characterization Interval Bounds to Gyroscopic Problems. Carmelo Raffaele Cartiere, Head of Research and Development, Division of Quantitative Physics and Systems Engineering, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK. Title: An Analytical Study of Diophantine Equations of Pythagorean Form. Michael Hecht, Visiting Professor / Research Group Leader, CASUS / HZDR, Germany. Title: Fast Multivariate Newton Interpolation for Downward Closed Polynomial Spaces. Karl Javorszky, Retired, Austria. Title: Update on a+b=c.

 

12:00-13:30 Session 7
Session 7a Moderator: Larry Qiu, Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.	Session 7b Moderator: Cleopatra Veloutsou, Head, Marketing Unit, The Athens Institute & Professor of Brand Management, University of Glasgow, UK.	Session 7c Moderator: Karl Javorszky, Retired, Austria.
Byasdeb Dasgupta, Professor, University of Kalyani, India. Title: Wage Productivity Gap and Labour Market Flexibility: A Study based on Indian Manufacturing Industries during 1973-2020. Nurhan Hande Sevgi, Assistant Professor, Ufuk University, Türkiye. Title: Interest Rate and Inflation Relationship-Fisher Hypothesis: Definition of The Inflation Basket. Hemmat Safwat, Director, Energy Consultant, Greece. Title: How Close are Macro-Economics/Macro-Thermodynamics? The Knowledge & Energy Pair Economies in the Net Zero Era. Bruno Fiesenig, PhD Student and Research Assistant, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Title: Unicorn Valuation Post IPO: An Empirical Analysis.	YuPei Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Title: Marketing Strategies for Digital Games in the Globalized Market. Abdulelah Abed Althagafi, Assistant Professor, The University of Business and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Title: Critical Comparison of Social Media Marketing Technologies in HE of Saudia Arabia and Scotland for International Student Recruitment. Sandra Miranda, Lecturer, Lisbon College of Communication, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Title: Exploring Motivations and Preferences in Digital Influencer Engagement among American and Portuguese Higher School Students.	Philip Slobodsky, Director, Halomda Educational Software, Israel. Mariana Durcheva, Lecturer, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel. Leonid Kugel, Lecturer, Kaye College of Education, Israel. Title: If you Can’t Beat It, Join It! Teaching and Learning Mathematics with ChatGPT and Key Prompts to Stimulate Self-Learning. Yenting Lai, PhD Student, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Erh-Tsung Chin, Professor, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Title: A Case Study of Rural Teachers Developing Bilingual Mathematics Teaching through a Teacher Professional Learning Community. Weng Sung-Huan, PhD Candidate, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Erh-Tsung Chin, Professor, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Title: The Development of Ethno-mathematics Teaching Activity Design Based on Bunun (a Taiwan Indigenous Tribe) Traditional Weaving. Chia-Hao Tsai, PhD Candidate, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Erh-Tsung Chin, Professor, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. Title: A Study on the Feasibility of Establishing a Teacher Professional Learning Network through the Implementation of On-line Public Lesson Mode.

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:30 Session 8
Session 8a Moderator: Hemmat Safwat, Director, Energy Consultant, Greece.	Session 8b Moderator: Seren Yashar, AI Governance Lead, Independent, Greece.
Gulem Atabay, Full Professor, Izmir University of Economics, Türkiye. Title: The Role of Interprofessional Education on Positive Attitude Development: An Experimental Study on Nursing and Medical Students. Jeremy Swanston, Associate Professor, University of Iowa, USA. Title: Centering Community Voices in Design: Project PEER. Radka Leskova, Assistant Professor and Researcher, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Title: Sustainability Assessment and the Importance of Environmental Indexes for Companies Operating in Slovakia. Ricardo Teixeira Veiga, Full Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Márcio Augusto Gonçalves, Full Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. André Torres Urdan, Full Professor, UNINOVE, Brazil. Celso Augusto de Matos, Assistant Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Title: Building Sustainable Business Models through a Hierarchical Ethical Approach and S-D Logic. Panagiotis Anastasopoulos, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, USA. Title: Using Statistical and Econometric Modeling to Enhance Predictive Machine Learning in Transportation Safety Research: A Theoretical Framework. Irina Rodriguez De La Flor, Researcher and CEO IMI, University of Alcalá, Spain. Title: Inner Management and a Possible New Type of Human Intelligence.	Catalin Silviu Nutu, Associate Professor, Constanta Maritime University, Romania. Title: Decrypting Evolutionary Fractals using Intelligence Models based on the CSN Matrix. Sahika Gokmen, Associate Professor, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Türkiye. Title: An Early-Warning System Against Violence for Woman: Türkiye Example. Mariana Durcheva, Lecturer, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel. Title: Tropical Cryptography – The State of The Art and Future Prospects. Nemanja Milenkovic, Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Title: A Novel Approach in Multivariate Outlier Detection. Babhrubahan Bose, Research Assistant, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. Title: Pointwise Symmetry of Birkhoff-James Orthogonality and Geometry of

 

17:00-20:00 Session 9 Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk

The urban walk ticket is not included as part of your registration fee. It includes transportation costs and the cost to enter the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Acropolis Hill. The urban walk tour includes the broader area of Athens. Among other sites, it includes: Zappion, Syntagma Square, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Ancient Roman Agora and on Acropolis Hill: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and the Parthenon. The program of the tour may be adjusted, if there is a need beyond our control. This is a private event organized by ATINER exclusively for the conference participants.

20:30-22:00
Dinner

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Wednesday 3 July 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit

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Thursday 4 July 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi

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Friday 5 July 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion

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