Flora Leventis

BA in Economics, Deree – The American College of Greece, MA in Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, MA, MPhil, PhD in Economics, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Leventis joined the Department of Economics at Deree College in 2016. Before that, she had taught at Baruch and Hunter Colleges and worked as a quantitative analyst at IBM in New York. At Deree, she has taught courses in the areas of economic theory, econometrics, financial economics and mathematical economics. Her current teaching involves such courses as Mathematical Economics, Applied Statistics, Money and Banking and Economic Principles. Her research interests include systemic risk, financial and macro linkages, and spillover effects, financial crises, and time-series econometrics. More recently, she has also been focusing on the economic effects of climate change.

Selected Publications

Flora Leventis & Panagiotis Palaios, Fresh evidence from temperature effects on growth and economic policy uncertainty: A panel quantile approach, The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Volume 30, 2024.