CURRICULUM VITAE
Family Name: Papahristodoulou
First Name: Christos
Office Address: School of Business Society and Engineering, Mälardalen
University, Box 883, SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden, Tel +46 21 10 31 76,
e-mail: [email protected]
Vital Statistics: Born in 1955, in Greece.
Matrimonial Status: Married; two children
Citizenship: Swedish
Education Background:
(a) Ph.D. (1986), Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
(b) M.S.Sc. (1982), Uppsala University, Department of Economics.
(c) B.A. (1979), The Athens School of Economics and Business Science, Department
of Economics.
Current position:
Lecturer in Economics & Finance, School of Business, Society and
Engineering/Economics, Mälardalen University, since 2001-04-01; Associate
professor since 2004-04-06
Previous positions:
(a) Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Period:
1987-09-01 / 2001-09-30.
(b) Guest Researcher at the Christian Michelsens Institute, Dept. of Science &
Technology, Centre for Petroleum Economics, Bergen, Norway. Period: 1987-0201 / 1987-07-30.
(c) Assistant in Economics, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. Period:
1984-01-01 / 1987-01-31.
Scientific publications:
(1) Inventions, Innovations and Economic Growth in Sweden: An Appraisal of the
Schumpeterian Theory, Ph.D. Thesis, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia
Oeconomica Upsaliensia 12, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1987.
(2) Evaluating the performance of UEFA Champions League scorers, (International
Journal of Sports Science, Vol. 4 No. 6A, 2014, pp. 1-11).
(3) A MNLIP Model on Wage Dispersion and Team Performance, (2014), in V.
Charles & M. Kumar (eds): Business Performance Management, Cambridge
Scholars Publishers, UK.
(4) Optimal Football Strategies: AC Milan versus FC Barcelona, (2014), in V.
Charles & M. Kumar (eds): Business Performance Management, Cambridge
Scholars Publishers, UK.
(5) Imperfect Cartel: A Mathematica Demonstration, (2014):
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ImperfectCartel/
(6) Limit Pricing: A Mathematica Demonstration, (2014):
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LimitPricing/
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Monopolistic Competition with a Homogeneous Product: A Mathematica
Demonstration, (2014):
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/MonopolisticCompetitionWithAHomoge
neousProduct/
(7) Dynamic Profit maximization for a Monopolist: A Mathematica Demonstration
(2013):
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DynamicProfitMaximizationForAMonop
olist/
(8) An analysis of UEFA Champions League match statistics, (International Journal
of Applied Sports Science, 20(1), 67-93, 2008).
(9) Option strategies with Linear Programming, (European Journal of Operational
Research, 157, 2004).
(10) Optimal Portfolios using Linear Programming Models, (together with E.
Dotzauer), (Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55, 2004).
(11) A Simple Binary LP Model to the Facility Layout Problem, (The Empirical
Economics Letters, 2 (4) 2003).
(12) The Dayton Division of Bosnia and other core allocations, (Applied Economic
Letters, 7, 2000).
(13) A DEA Model to Evaluate Car Efficiency, (Applied Economics, 29, 1997).
(14) Is Lean Production the Solution? (Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 15,
August 1994).
(15) R and D, innovations and productivity: results and explanations (in Swedish),
Report Nr 10, in "The Swedish Productivity Delegation", Allmänna Förlaget,
Stockholm, 1991.
(16) R and D and Productivity in Swedish Manufacturing 1963-1983, in B.
Johansson & C. Karlsson (eds): Innovation, industrial knowledge and trade - A
Nordic perspective, European Networks: 1990:1.
(17) Innovations and Economic Growth (in Swedish), Ekonomisk Debatt 2, 1989.
Unpublished Works and Working Papers
(18) Internal and External Cartel Stability: Numerical Solutions, submitted to
Computational Economics, May 2016.
(19) The optimal layout of football players: A case study of AC Milan, (2010),
Working paper; down-loadable at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20102/
(20) Lecture Notes on Industrial Economics, (2010), down-loadable at:
http://cpapa.europe.pageout.net/page.dyn/student/course/object_list?sessio
n_id=48141&course_id=38561
(21) Bonus, efforts, costs, market size and teams’ performance, (2009), Working
paper; down-loadable at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16989/
(22) Lecture Notes on Corporate Finance (2009), down-loadable at:
http://cpapa.europe.pageout.net/page.dyn/student/course/course_content?c
ourse_id=39689
(23) Lecture Notes on Investment Theory (2009), down-loadable at:
http://cpapa.europe.pageout.net/page.dyn/student/course/course_content?c
ourse_id=39719
(24) A note on the effectiveness of some de-fuzzification measures in a fuzzy pure
factors portfolio, (2008), Working paper; down-loadable at:
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/11365/
(25) The relative efficiency of UEFA Champions League scorers, (2007), Working
paper; down-loadable at: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4943/
(26) Optimization Applications in Finance, (2006), book manuscript; downloadable at:
http://www.pageout.net/user/europe/c/p/cpapa/Fin.%20Optimization/boo
k1.pdf
(27) Globala trender inom bank och finansbranschen, rapport till Sparbanken,
mimeo, Mälardalen University College, (2005).
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(28) Lärdomar av ett oligopoly-experiment, docentföreläsning, mimeo, Mälardalen
University College, (2004).
(29) Review and critical comments on R. S. Pindyck & D. L. Rubinfield:
”Microeconomics”, 6th edition (Prentice-Hall, 2004).
(30) Review and critical comments on J. M. Perloff’s manuscript on the new
intermediate book ”Microeconomics” (Addison Wesley, 1999).
(31) Submitted answer to ”New course in traffic-policy” (SOU 1997:35) (in
Swedish), mimeo, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1997.
(32) Compendium in Transportation Economics, mimeo, Department of Economics,
Uppsala University, 1997.
(33) Technical Efficiency in the US, Japanese and German Auto -manufacturing,
Working paper, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1995:5.
(34) Compendium in Microeconomics with exercises, mimeo, Department of
Economics, Uppsala University, 1993 (revised 1995, 1998).
(35) Compendium in Operational Research, mimeo, Department of Economics,
Uppsala University, 1988 (revised 1993).
(36) Salter's approach to predict the price of oil by the year 2000, (together with T.
Hefting and E. Moxnes), mimeo, Chr. Michelsens Institute, Centre for
Petroleum Economics, Bergen, 1987.
(37) Co-ordinated Transport of Oil and Gas: Principles of Cost Sharing, (together
with L. Fagerli and Å. Hallefjord, in Norwegian), mimeo, Chr. Michelsens
Institute, Centre for Petroleum Economics, Bergen, 1987.
(38) Life Cycle Costing: Concepts and Methods of Estimation, mimeo, Chr.
Michelsens Institute, Centre for Petroleum Economics, Bergen, 1987.
Main Supervisor & Appointed Referee:
(a) Tommy Kovala (PhD student); Project: “The role of flexible consumers in a
future renewable power system”; Main Supervisor; Period: September 2015 –
Spring Term 2020
(b) “Modeling Specialization and Division of Labor in Cultural Evolution” (M.
Ehn), PhD thesis (No 107), Mathematics, Mälardalen University College (201111-11), Member of the Evaluation Committee.
(c) In various published papers in Applied Economics (2000), Omega (2004), Journal of
Decision Systems (2005), Journal of Productivity Analysis (2006), European Journal of
Operational Research (2006), Energy Policy (2012, 2015).
(d) Evaluation committee for two lecturers, one in economics for the University of
Örebro, 2004, and one in Analytical Finance/Mathematics for Mälardalen
University College, 2006.
(e) Swedish championships in Economics, University of Karlstad (1994), Uppsala
University (1999).
Other relevant achievements:
 Director of Economics, Statistics & Commercial Law, Mälardalen University
(2004-2007)
 Member of the board at the Swedish Automobile Association (1996-2002)
 President of the Greek Scientists' Association in Sweden (1995-98)
 Teaching in English (Diploma, University of Manchester, 1994)
 Member of the board at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University
(1989-92), re-elected in 1992-96
 Honorary Membership of the "International J.A. Schumpeter Society", (1986)
 President of the Economists' Association in Uppsala (1986)
 Languages: Greek (native), Swedish (perfect), English (perfect), French
(satisfactory)
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