Yanni Tournas

VITA

Yanni Tournas

Department of Business Mangement

BMCC/CUNY

Email:Office Phone 212 220 8209

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Economics and Strategy, Northwestern University, 1996

M.A., Economics, University of Illinois, 1986

B.A., Economics, University of Athens, Greece, 1984

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Business Management, BMCC, 2005 - Present

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 1996 – 2003

Visiting Assistant Professor, J. L.Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, 1995-1996, Summer 1997, Summer 1998

Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, MBA Program, Two week modules in December 1994, March 1995, December 1999, December 2000, September 2001

RESEARCH AREAS

Primary: Theory of the Firm, Competitive Strategy, Applied Microeconomics, Accounting and Business Education

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Honor Roll Faculty, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1995-96

Doctoral Teaching Award, J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1994-1995

Winifred Gerald Memorial Award, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1986

PUBLICATIONS, WORKING PAPERS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"In-House Competition, Organizational Slack and the Business Cycle".Joint with Rudolf Kerschbamer Presented at the XIV Latin America Econometric Society Meeting at Rio de Janeiro, the 1997 Far Eastern Econometric Society Meeting at Hong Kong and at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and the Midwestern Mathematical Economics Conference at Northwestern University, May 1998.Winter 2003 issue of the European Economic Review.

"Idiosyncratic Investments, Outside Opportunities and the Boundaries of the Firm".Joint with Rudolf Kerschbamer and Nina Maderner.Presented at the 1998 North America Econometric Society Meeting in Montreal, Canada.Volume 20, 2002, 1119-1141, International Journal of Industrial Organization.

"Tapered Integration and Informational Efficiency". Presented at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Helsinki, the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, at Nice, France and the Eastern Economic Association Meeting, Washington D.C., April 1999. Under journal review.

"Partial Characterization of the Strategy Space with Bertrand Competition when Capacity costs Differ". Presented at the Athens Technological Institute, Greece, January 2000.

"Work Value Theory as Theoretical Framework of Student’s Perception of the Accounting Profession: A comparative Study", joint work with E. Germanou.Presented at the European Accounting Education conference in Valencia, Spain, 2007 and the American Higher Education Conference in Atlantic City, NJ, 2008.Under journal review.

"An Analytical Framework for Organizing Course Structure and Achieving Deep Learning", joint work with EleniGermanou.

"Analysis and Evaluation of Student Approaches to Learning in the Introduction to Marketing class of CUNY Community Colleges”, Work in progress

"Vocational beliefs as the constructs of CUNY students' perception of the accounting profession: A comparative study", work in progress

REFEREE ASSIGNMENTS

Acted as referee for the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

FACULTY ADVISOR

Hong Kong American Club

REFERENCES

Professor Nabil Al-Najjar
MEDS/KELLOGG G.S.M.
Northwestern University
Phone: 847-491-5426
Email: al-najjar
@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Professor Carlos Seiglie
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Economics
Rutgers University
361 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: (973) 353 5259
Email: / Professor Rudolf Kerschbamer
University of Innsbruck
Austria, Europe
Phone: + (431) 427 73 74 29
Email:
ProfessorEfstathiaBura
Department of Statistics
George Washington University
2115 G Street, NW
Washington, DC
Phone: 202-. 994-6358
Email: