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Mourelatos, E., Tzagarakis, M., 2018,\u00a0<em>NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking<\/em>\u00a019(3), pp. 95-130<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing the impact of online hotel reviews through the use of emoticons, Manganari, E.E., Dimara, E., 2017,\u00a0<em>Behaviour and Information Technology<\/em>, 36(7), pp. 674-686<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t change my towels please: Factors influencing participation in towel reuse programs, Dimara, E., Manganari, E., Skuras, D., 2017,\u00a0<em>Tourism Management<\/em>, 59, pp. 425-437<\/li>\n<li>Transmission chains of economic uncertainty on macroeconomic activity: new empirical evidence, Salamaliki, P.K., Venetis, I.A., 2018,\u00a0<em>Macroeconomic Dynamics<\/em>, pp. 1-31<\/li>\n<li>Asymptotic results for a stationary random process generated by the stochastic EM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 algorithm in mixture analyses.\u00a0 A. Polymenis (2018),\u00a0<em>Journal of Statistics and Management Systems<\/em>,\u00a021(2), pp. 251-260.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Book chapters<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Modelling reliability: a practical application from industry. A. Polymenis (2018), Advanced Engineering Research and Applications, vol. 9, chapter 22, pp. 283-288, Ed. Hongseok Choi, Research India Publications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Working papers<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Dynamic Factor Models in gretl. The DFM package. \u03a3\u03c5\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b5\u03af\u03c2: Riccardo Jack Lucchetti, Ioannis A Venetis, Date: 2019\/1, Source: gretl working papers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Conferences<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Organization of \u00a0the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Biennial gretl Conference, June 2-3 2017, Athens, Greece,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gretlconference.org\/2017-conference\">http:\/\/www.gretlconference.org\/2017-conference<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(I. Venetis, M. Tzagarakis)<\/li>\n<li>Daskalou, V. &amp; Komninou, M. Designing an online entrepreneurship course for Higher Education: preliminary issues and challenges. Proc, of the 10th Pan-Hellenic and International Conference &#8220;ICT in Education&#8221;, Ioannina, Greece, September 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Invited lectures<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>QML-EM estimation of dynamic factor models in gretl. Towards a Labor Market Condition Index for Greece. I. Venetis. Marche Polytechnic University, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Ancona Italy (9 November 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Time series forecasting and forecast evaluation in economics. An introduction. (26 April 2018). I. Venetis. 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