Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance, Course Coordinator - MSc Financial Economics & MSc International Relations Management

I started my professional life as a governmental official in Greece. I finished my PhD in Economics in Brunel University, UK, in July 2012 and joined the Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy Group in the University of Essex in October 2012 as an expert on accounting and finance. Hence, I am one of the online tutors for the CeFIMS and CeDeP centres in SOAS University.

As an Academic I am dedicated, adaptable and personable with a proactive, detail-oriented and results-driven approach. Moreover, I have a specialist interest in applied economics, particularly defence & peace economics. My principal research interests, though, lay on the impact of the regional aspect of social reproduction under specific socio-historical conditions and political/governmental policies on economic growth in different countries.

At present I am investigating the effects of political regime types, the policies which stem out of different political systems and the underlying social environment on the economic well-being in LDC (mainly Asian countries and the Balkans).

Finally, among my future plans is to expand my involvement in international peace research programs.

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Qualifications

• PhD Economics – Brunel University, UK
• MRes Politics – Brunel University, UK
• BSc (Hons) Ptyxion Economics – Aristotle University of Greece
• PG Certificate (Public Policy Analysis) -London School of Economics
• PG Certificate (Law & Economics) – Linköping University Sweden
• Certificate of Training in Economy and Law – Kapodistriako University Greece
• Certificate of Training in Internal Auditing – Kapodistriako University Greece

Teaching Expertise

• International Relations/Security
• Public Economics/Finance
• Development Economics
• Political economy
• Research Methods
• Econometrics
• Auditing

Research Interests

• Defense economics
• Economic Growth
• Business Economics
• Political economics

Research Projects

• Dimitraki, O., Klapper, L.F. and Panos, G.A Business Performance, competitiveness and corporate conduct: A study of informal origins in the Western Balkans.
• Dimitraki, O. and Emmanouilidis, K. Interactional Impact of Defence Expenditure and Political Instability on Economic Growth in Nigeria: Revisited.
• Dimitraki, O. and Emmanouilidis, K. Political Instability and Economic growth: Re-examining Western Europe.

External Roles

• Advisory Board - Conflict and Research Society
• Women’s Network [University of Bedfordshire]: events officer role within the Women's Network

Journals

• Journal of Defense and Peace Economics
• Journal of European Political Economy
• Journal of General Management (JGM)
• Journal of Asia-Pacific of Accounting and Economics
• Editorial Board: Scientific Annals of the University of Iasi Romania FEAA
• Editorial Board: World Economy Study

Publishers

• Pearson Education
• Palgrave McMillan
• Oxford University Press

Membership

• HEA – Fellow in Higher Education
• Royal Economic Society
• International Atlantic Economic Society
• Economic History Association
• Political Studies Association
• Institute for Learning
• Defence Research Group
• CEA UK
• Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain

Publications

Journals

• Menla-Ali, F.& Dimitraki, O. (2014), Military spending and economic growth in China: a regime-switching analysis. Applied Economics. 46 (28), 3408-3420. Also selected for the Taylor and Francis series: The Economics of War.
• Dimitraki, O. & Menla-Ali, F. (2015), The long –run causal relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in China: Revisited. Journal of Defence and Peace Economics 26 (3), 311-326. Also, selected by Routledge studies for the series 'China: The Economic Powerhouse' under 'Economic Growth' title.
• Dimitraki, O. & Kartsaklas, A. (2018) Sovereign Debt, Deficits and Defence spending: The case of Greece. Defence and Peace Economics, 29 (6), 712-727.
• Dimitraki, O. & Win, S. (2020) Military Expenditure and Economic Growth nexus in Jordan: An application of ARDL Bound Test Analysis in the presence of Breaks. Defence and Peace Economics. 32 (7), 864-881
• Dimitraki, O. (2022) Impact of COVID -19 on Defence spending in China: military burden or peacekeeping facilitation? SCIREA Journal of Economics. 7 (4), 137-161.
• Dimitraki, O. and Emmanouilidis, K. (2023). Analysis of the Economic Effects of Defence Spending in Spain: A Re-examination through Dynamic ARDL Simulations and Kernel-Based Regularized Least Squares. Defence and Peace Economics.

Books/Chapters in Books

• Burt, G Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook, 2015 guest contributor: ‘The Greek bailout referendum by Ourania Dimitraki’.

Contact Details

E: ourania.dimitraki@beds.ac.uk