Dr Konstantinos Melachroinos
Lecturer
School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Tel: 020 7882 5573
Fax: 020 7882 7479
Email: k.melachroinos@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Research areas: uneven industrial growth, regional capital accumulation, productivity dynamics, cost recovery and sunk costs, firm marketing strategies, technology parks, European Union, Greece
Konstantinos Melachroinos's research interests cover a wide range of topics within the broad field of economic geography. A substantial part of his research focuses on issues of regional productivity dynamics, capital accumulation, cost recovery and sunk costs. Greek cities and regions have provided an exciting empirical context, while the findings have been utilised in assessing the effectiveness of state regional policy in that country. Similarly, theoretical considerations about the nature of the economic indicators applied in spatial analysis form another important aspect of this work. More recent research themes include the exploration of the spatial dimension of firm marketing strategies, especially the new geographies of uneven development that are shaped as a result of them, and the study of policies of innovation promotion in peripheral areas.
Finally, the examination of productivity disparities across the European Union is another major project. This research has been supported through a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship. A recent development in relation to this research is the current secondment to the OECD to work in a project involving the expansion of the OECD Territorial Database with a view to evaluate regional policies in member states.
Publications:
Melachroinos, K.A. (2002) European integration and the spatial dynamics of manufacturing-employment change, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 34 (11): 2017-2036
Melachroinos, K.A. and Spence, N. (2001) Manufacturing productivity growth across European Union states: 1978-1994, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 33 (9): 1681-1703
Melachroinos, K.A. and Spence, N. (2001) Conceptualising sunk costs in economic geography: cost recovery and the fluctuating value of fixed capital, Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 25 (3): 347-364
Melachroinos, K. and Spence, N. (2000) Constructing a manufacturing fixed capital stock series for the regions of Greece, European Planning Studies, Vol. 8 (1): 43-67
Melachroinos, K.A. and Spence, N. (1999) Regional economic performance and sunk costs, Regional Studies, Vol. 33 (9): 843-855
Melachroinos, K.A. and Spence N. (1999) Capital and labour productivity convergence of manufacturing industry in the regions of Greece, in M.M. Fischer and P. Nijkamp (eds.) Spatial dynamics of European integration: regional and policy issues at the turn of the century, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 209-235
Loukissas, P. and Melachroinos, K. (1999) The development of technology parks in the Greek cities, in D. Economou and G. Petrakos (eds.) The development of the Greek cities: interdisciplinary approaches in urban analysis and policy, University of Thessaly Press - Gutenberg, Athens, 209-230 (in Greek)
Melachroinos, K.A. and Spence, N. (1997) Regional productivity dynamics of manufacturing in Greece, European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 4 (4): 315-332
Melachroinos, K.A. (1995) The industry of Volos: crisis and prospects, in T. Maloutas (ed.) Volos: enquiring the city's social identity, Paratiritis, Thessaloniki, 141-175 (in Greek)