Konstantinos Chatzimichael is currently a special scientist in the Department of Commerce, Finance, and Shipping at Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a PhD in micro-econometrics from the Department of Economics at University of Crete. During 2006-07, he was an exchange visitor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Penn State University, USA. His research interests cover the fields of Production Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Productivity and Innovation, Technology Adoption and Diffusion and Panel Data Econometrics. His research has been published in peer reviewed academic journals including . He has participated in several research projects funded [...]from the European Union and National Resources.