Young Scholar Introduction and Academic Writing Workshop

Costas Iliopoulos

Agricultural Economics Research Institute

Constantine Iliopoulos is the director of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AGRERI)
and Adjunct Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens, both in Athens, Greece. His
research program focuses on collective entrepreneurship—particularly the organizational and
capital-acquisition aspects of innovative cooperatives, and rural development—with
attention to both theoretical and policy concerns. The economics of cooperative legislation and
policy, the formation requirements for bargaining cooperatives, and innovative
solutions to ownership and governance problems of agricultural cooperatives have been in the
center of his research during the last years. Constantine’s theoretical tools include approaches
such as organizational, new institutional and evolutionary economics. His empirical research
includes numerous survey data collection and analyses at the farm, cooperative and industry
levels, case study and focus groups research, as well as latent variable model analyses.