Karaganis Anastassios is Associate Professor at Panteion University of Athens. He is head of Quantitative Analysis and GIS Research Centre of Regional Development Institute (with Professor Tassopoulos). He has a BSc in Economics from Athens University of Economics and Business Science, and a PhD and MSc in Spatial Quantitative Methods from Panteion University. He also works as consultant to Piraeus Bank. His academic and professional and research interests are in Spatial Econometrics and Location Theory while his applied work focuses on the banking sector and the real estate markets. He has worked as scientific coordinator in the market research industry specialized in sampling and questionnaire design for political surveys. He teaches Econometrics, Capital Markets, Project Management and Real Estate Valuation at Panteion University.