Dr Antonis Kyparissis

Lecturer in Economics

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Biography

Antonis is a Lecturer in Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University. He gained his PhD at the Open University Business School.

Prior to joining MMU, Antonis worked at the OU as a researcher and taught at the universities of London (QMUL, UCL, Goldsmiths) and Northampton.

His research centres around Economic and Business History, Political Economy and History of Economic Thought.

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Published Papers

Sotiropoulos, D., Rutterford, J., Tori D., and Kyparissis, A.(2022).Fund management in the interwar period: UK investment trust portfolio asset allocation in the 1920s. European Review of Economic History, 27(2), pp. 250–77.

Book Chapters

Rutterford, J., Sotiropoulos, D. and A., Kyparissis. (2022). British Investment Trusts 1868 to 1928: Portfolio Diversification and the Beginnings of Institutional Investment. In: Arie, A., Marcuzzo, C. and A., Rosselli (eds.) Financial Markets in Perspective - Lessons from Economic History and History of Economic Thought, Springer.

Kyparissis, A. and Christodoulidou, C. (2016). Kyriakos Varvaresos and administrative restructure. In: Psalidopoulos M. (ed. - intr.) Development Models in Greece. Past, Present and Future. Metamesonykties Editions. Athens. (In Greek)

Conference Papers

“Investing in post-WWI Europe. The historical paradigm of the British Investment Trust Companies during the 1920s.” (2023). Paper presented in the 2nd International Congress of French Business History, Paris, June 15-16.

“Do investors prefer democracy? The historical case of the British Investment Trusts during the 1920s”. (2022). Presentation in the conference on Giving Credit to dictatorship.Authoritarian Regimes and Financial Capitalism in the 20th century. Institute of Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15 November.

“Professional asset management after WWI: UK investment trusts’ portfolios strategies in the 1920s.” (2021). Paper presented in the Economic History Society (EHS) Annual Conference. [Virtual] April 6-9.

Kyparissis, A. and Christosdoulidou, C. (2017). The Political Economy of Labour; an attempt to delineate the gender differences under the spectrum of heterodox approaches. Paper presented in the 3rd International Conference in Economic and Social History. Labour History: production, markets, relations, policies (from the late Middle Ages to the early 21st century). Ioannina, Greece, May 24-27.

Kyparissis, A. and Christosdoulidou, C. (2015). Kyriakos Varvaresos. An alternative approach of the developmental process of the Greek economy in the 50s. Suggestions and lessons for today. Paper presented in the First international scientific conference. Productive Reconstruction in Greece: Studying today we construct future. Thessaloniki, Greece, November 27-28.