Nikolaos Artavanis

E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University
Assistant Professor of Finance,

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. I obtained my PhD in Finance from Virginia Tech, and I also have an educational background in Economics (M.A.) and Mathematics (M.Sc.). My research interests lie in the fields of financial intermediation, household finance, and empirical asset pricing.

Research Interests

  • Financial Intermediation

  • Household Finance

  • Public Economics

  • Asset Pricing

Education

PhD in Business (Finance), Virginia Tech 2013
MSc in Mathematics, Virginia Tech, 2009
MA in Economics, Virginia Tech, 2008

MSc in Banking and Fin. Management, Univ. of Piraeus, 2005
BSc in Banking and Fin. Management, Univ. of Piraeus, 2002

Research

Published

Measuring Income Tax Evasion using Bank Credit: Evidence from Greece
with Adair Morse and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2016)

Financial Literacy and Student Debt
with Soumya Karra
The European Journal of Finance (2020)

Determinants of Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Foreclosure Moratorium
with Ioannis Spyridopoulos
Journal of Financial Intermediation (2023)

The Importance of Risk Preference Parameters in Prospect Theory: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows
with Asli Eksi
Journal of Behavioral Finance (2024)

Cross-Subsidization of Bad Credit in a Lending Crisis
with Brian Jonghwan Lee, Stavros Panageas and Margarita Tsoutsoura
Review of Financial Studies (2025)

Working Papers

Teaching

FIN 3716 – Principles of Finance
E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University


FIN 4110 – Investments in Equities
A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University

FIN 3144 – Investments
FIN 3154 – Corporate Finance
Pamplin College of Business, Virignia Tech

FIN 305(H)- Investments (Honors)
FIN 406/597 – Corporate Risk Management
FIN 499 C – International Macro-Finance & Financial Crises I (Honors)
FIN 499 D – International Macro-Finance & Financial Crises II (Honors)
Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst