Konstantinos Melas, Ph.D.
Maritime Economist
Thank you for visiting my personal website. Here you can find my curriculum vitae, as well as, my peer-reviewed publications, and my articles in the media. Feel free to contact me either via email or my social media accounts.
Short Bio
Konstantinos Melas is the head of academic programs in business administration at Metropolitan College’s – Thessaloniki campus and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Economics at the University of Western Macedonia. His research interests focus on the fields of maritime economics, finance, and commodity markets. He has taught courses in shipping and logistics management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Macedonia, the University of Central Lancashire, and the International Hellenic University. His research has been published in internationally recognized academic journals such as International Economics, Maritime Economics & Logistics, and Review of Behavioral Finance. He completed his postgraduate studies in International Accounting and Finance at City University of London and his doctoral thesis at the Department of Commerce, Finance, and Shipping at the Cyprus University of Technology. Before entering academia, he held executive positions in the fields of shipping and asset management.
Peer reviewed Publications
Measuring the impact of port congestion on containership freight rates
Co-authored with Nektarios Michail. The paper has been published in Maritime Transport Research. Volume 8, June 2025, 100130
Read more...Trade Uncertainty, Economic Policy Uncertainty and Shipping Costs
Co-authored with Nektarios Michail & Kyriaki Louca. The paper has been published in German Economic Review journal.
Read more...Econometric Insights into LNG Carrier Port Congestion and Energy Inflation: A Data-Driven Approach
Co-authored with Stavros Karamperidis and Nektarios Michail . The paper has been published in the Journal "Commodities" 2024, 3(4), 462-471.
Read more...Volatility Spillovers among the Major Commodities: A Review
Co-authored with Anastasia Faitatzoglou, Nektarios Michail & Anastasia Artemiou. The paper has been published in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 9, 20, 2024. 17, no. 8: 365
Read more...Geopolitical Risk and the LNG-LPG Trade
Co-authored with Nektarios Michail. The paper has been published in Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy journal.
Read more...The whole list of published scientific articles...
Press releases
Shipping freight rates and inflation in the Euro Area
Co-authored with Nektarios Michail and Lena Cleanthous. The article was published in December's 2022 issue of SUERF Policy Brief, No 482.
Read more...Russian–Ukrainian war: How will the Greek ports be affected?
The article was published in the May/June 2022 issue of Greek Business File
Read more...