Nikolaos Papanikolaou
Office: Carman Hall, Room 381
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 718-960-7128
E-mail: nikolaos.papanikolaou@lehman.cuny.edu
Degrees and Sources of Degrees
- Ph.D., M.Phil., New School for Social Research
- M.A., City College, City University of New York
- B.S., Salem State College
Dr. Papanikolaou received his Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in NYC. His area of concentration is in econometrics, macro-econometrics, statistics, interdisciplinary field of econophysics (non-parametric and stochastic approaches to the statistical size distributions of income) and business cycles. Dr. Papanikolaou has taught courses in econometrics, statistics, bio-statistics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade and finance and the history of economic thought.
Before joining the Department of Economics and Business at Lehman College, Dr. Papanikolaou was a research assistant at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School where he worked on the Standard of Living Project, analyzing trends in income (personal, household and family) over time within the context of economic growth, employment, and income inequality over the past five decades in the United States. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at The Research Foundation of the City University of New York, analyzing macroeconomic data, including income distribution and inequality, unemployment, savings, investment, national debt, monetary, fiscal and tax policy initiatives.
Education
- Ph.D., New School for Social Research
- M.Phil., New School for Social Research
- M.A., City College, City Univ. of New York
- B.S., Salem State College
- Papanikolaou, Nikolaos. (2021). "Tax Progressivity of Personal Wages and Income Inequality" J. Risk Financial Manag. 14, no. 2: 60.
- Dene T. Hurley, and Nikolaos Papanikolaou, (2021). “Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) analysis of U.S.-China commodity trade dynamics”, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 81, Pages 454-467.
- Nikolaos Papanikolaou (2020). “Markov-Switching Model of Family Income Quintile Shares”, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 48 (2), pp. 207-222, July 7, 2020,
- Nikolaos Papanikolaou (2020). "The Econophysics of Labor Income", Bulletin of Applied Economics, Risk Market Journals, vol. 7(1), pp. 107-122.
- Amod Choudhary and Nikolaos Papanikolaou (2019), “Sustainability of the Funded Ratio and Asset Allocation Choice of State Public Pension Plans”, International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting”, doi:10.5296/ijafr.v9i1:ISSN 2162-3082, Vol. 9, No. 1.
- Dene Hurley and Nikolaos Papanikolaou, (2018), "An Investigation of China-U.S. Bilateral Trade and Exchange Rate Changes Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model", Economic Papers, doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12206.
- Amod Choudhary and Nikolaos Papanikolaou (2017), "U.S. Public Pension Funds and Risk Seeking Behavior of Money Managers: The Path to Alternative Investments", International Journal of Business and Finance Research (IJBFR), Volume 11.
- Anwar Shaikh, Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Noe Wiener, (2014) “Race, gender and the econophysics of income distribution in the USA”, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. (415) (December), pp. 54-60.
- DelaCruz, JJ, Papanikolaou, N and Wu, R (2013), “The Influence of Imprisonment on HIV and its Impact on Health-Related Inequalities in New York City”, International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 6 (2):115-126.
- Madrick, Jeff and Papanikolaou, Nikolaos. (2010). ‘The Stagnation of Male Wages in the US’, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 24(3) (July), pp. 309-319.
- Ghilarducci, T., Holder, M., Madrick, J., Papanikolaou, N., and Schelefer, J. (2008). ‘Infrastructure for America’s Economy: Evaluating the Evidence’, in The Promise of Public Investment, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, (May), pp. 21-31.
- The Eastern Economic Association, 50th Annual Conference, Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston MA, Mar. 1, 2024."Business Cycle Decomposition, Wavelets, and Income Inequality."
- 12th International Conference on Business & Economic Development, CBER-MEC (ICBED), Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn New York, USA, April 11th 2023, “Wavelet Transform Analysis of Unemployment and Inflation on Household Quintile Income Shares”, Session 10: Marketing and Branding/HRM, Presenter & Discussant.
- Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) 59th Annual Meeting Virtual Conference, University of New York, Farmingdale State College, New York USA, February 11, 2022, “Inflation, Unemployment and income inequality”, Section 5C-Macroeconomics, Moderator & Presenter & Discussant.
- The New York State Economics Association Annual Conference, New York City College of Technology, USA, (virtual) October 16, 2021, "Monetary Policy and Income Shares: Decomposition and ARDL Model Approach”, Session A4: Financial Economics I.
- The Eastern Economic Association, 47th Annual Conference, New York Sheraton, New York, NY (with Online Virtual Option) February 26, 2021. “Tax Progressivity of Personal Income: Kakwani Method.”
- The New York State Economics Association Annual Conference, New York City College of Technology, USA, (Virtual) October 3, 2020. "Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality." {Nikolaos Papanikolaou: Chair, Session A4: Income and Wealth Inequality and Presenter]
- The Eastern Economic Association, 46th Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, February 29, 2020. “An Analysis of U.S. Trade in Services.” [with Dene Hurley]
- The Eastern Economic Association, 45th Annual Conference, New York City, New York, USA. February 28 to March 3, 2019. “Decomposition of the Unemployment Rate and its Effects on Racial Income Inequality.”
- International Atlantic Economic Society, 86th Conference, New York City, October 11 to October 14, 2018. "Impact of the Great Recession and financial crises on family income shares and income inequality."
- Iona College, Summer Symposium, New Rochelle, NY, June 23, 2018. "Analysis of U.S.–China Commodity Trade using ARDL Approach." [with Dene Hurley]
- The Eastern Economic Association, 44th Annual Conference, Boston MA, USA, March 1 to March 4, 2018. "Panel Logit Regression Model in Investment Decisions Between Traditional and Alternative Asset Allocation of Public Pension Plans." [with Amod Choudhary]
- The New York State Economics Association, 69th Annual Conference, Farmingdale State College, USA, October 7 & 8, 2016. "An Investigation of China-U.S. Bilateral Trade and Exchange Rate Changes Using the ARDL Model." [with Dene Hurley]
- Academy of Business Research, Spring 2016 Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA (2016). "Public Pension Funds and Alternative Investments: Does Political Affiliation and Language Sway Pension Fund Money Managers to Redirect Investments into Alternative Assets." [with Amod Choudhary]
- Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office: The Colors of Inequality, Costs and Consequences. UU-UNO Intergenerational Spring 2016 Conference. (Panel: Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Lehman College/CUNY; Janet Gornick, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center/CUNY; Mark Sheskin, Yale University; Yuval Elmelech. Levy Economics Institute, Bard College).
- American Economic Association Annual Meeting, January 3-5, 2014, Philadelphia, PA., "Race, Ethnicity and Economic Policy." [with Juan Delacruz]
- 2nd Place College Fed Challenge, Maiden Lane Division, 2020
- 1st Place College Fed Challenge, Maiden Lane Division, 2017
- 1st Place College Fed Challenge, Maiden Lane Division, 2015
