1 First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Laiko General Hospital, 17 Ag. Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece 2Research Laboratory “Christeas Hall” and Evgenideion Hospital, Athens University Medical School, 5 Doryleou Street, 11521 Athens, Greece 3Department of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL, UK

PETROS DELLAPORTAS∗, JONATHAN J. FORSTER† and IOANNIS NTZOUFRAS∗∗ ∗Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, 10434 Athens, Greece [email protected] †Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK [email protected] ∗∗Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, 10434 Ath...

Iraklis Varlamis, Michalis Vazirgiannis Panagiotis Poulos Giorgos Akrivas, Spiros Ioannou Dept of Informatics, Athens University of Economics & Business, Patision 76, 10434, Athens, HELLAS {varlamis,mvazirg}@aueb.gr Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens 9, Iroon Polytechniou Str., 157 73, Athens, HELLAS [email protected] {gakrivas, sivann}@ image.ec...

1 Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 11635 Athens, Greece, 2 Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Centre ‘Alexander Fleming’, 16672 Vari, Greece, 3 Laboratory of Biotechnology, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Athens, Greece, 4 Enios Applications Pr...

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia, Driftmier Engineering Center, Athens, GA 30602, USA b Ecosystems Research Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, 960 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605, USA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Geography–...

Marina Economou, Elias Angelopoulos, Lily E. Peppou, Kyriakos Souliotis, Costas Stefanis University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens, Greece; First Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece; Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece; Centre for Health Services Re...

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...