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Greece Leads Euro Area in Share Spent on Old-Age Pensions: Chart

Salzano, Giovanni, (2017), “Greece Leads Euro Area in Share Spent on Old-Age Pensions: Chart”, Bloomberg Markets, 15 Μαρτίου Greece spends 13.3 percent of its gross domestic product on old-age pensions, the highest proportion in the euro area. The issue of pension cuts has become a major point of contention between Athens and its international bailout auditors. Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Nektarios, Milton, Tinios, Platon, Simeonidis, George, (2017), “A pension system for younger …Read More

The domestic productivity effects of FDI in Greece: loca(lisa)tion matters!

A. Jordaan, Jacob, Monastiriotis, Vassilis, (2016), “The domestic productivity effects of FDI in Greece: loca(lisa)tion matters!”, LSE Hellenic Observatory, Δεκέμβριος Despite an extensive empirical literature on the factors conditioning the size and prevalence of FDI productivity spillovers, the geographical dimension of these externalities remains relatively under-explored. In this paper we use firm level data from the Greek manufacturing sector to identify how three features of economic geography – spatial heterogeneity …Read More

ECB interventions in distressed sovereign debt markets: The case of Greek bonds

Trebesch, Christoph, Zettelmeyer, Jeromin, (2016), “ECB interventions in distressed sovereign debt markets: The case of Greek bonds”, IMF, November We study central bank interventions in times of severe distress (mid-2010), using a unique bond-level dataset of ECB purchases of Greek sovereign debt. ECB bond buying had a large impact on the price of short and medium maturity bonds, resulting in a remarkable “twist” of the Greek yield curve. However, the …Read More

The Determinants of Loan Loss Provisions: An Analysis of the Greek Banking System in Light of the Sovereign Debt Crisis

Monokroussos, Platon, D. Thomakos, Dimitrios, A. Alexopoulos, Thomas, (2016), “The Determinants of Loan Loss Provisions: An Analysis of the Greek Banking System in Light of the Sovereign Debt Crisis”, LSE Hellenic Observatory GreeSE Paper No.104, November We utilize a new set of macroeconomic and regulatory data to analyze the evolution of loan loss provisioning practices in the Greek banking system over the period 2005-2015. We explore the determinants of the aggregate …Read More

Inter-industry wage differentials in Greece: rent-sharing and unobserved heterogeneity hypotheses

Papapetrou, Evangelia, Tsalaporta, Pinelopi, (2016), “Inter-industry wage differentials in Greece: rent-sharing and unobserved heterogeneity hypotheses”, Bank of Greece, 10 Νοεμβρίου This paper examines the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Greece, along with the role of the rent-sharing and unobserved heterogeneity hypotheses, employing restricted least squares and quantile regression techniques with cluster robust standard errors at the firm level. To this end, a unique dataset, the European Union Structure …Read More

Το ελληνικό τραπεζικό σύστημα και ο ρόλος του στην επανεκκίνηση της ελληνικής οικονομίας: Οι προϋποθέσεις για την πλήρη άρση των capital controls

Γεωργικόπουλος, Νικόλαος, (2016), “Το ελληνικό τραπεζικό σύστημα και ο ρόλος του στην επανεκκίνηση της ελληνικής οικονομίας: Οι προϋποθέσεις για την πλήρη άρση των capital controls”, ΚΕΠΕ, 21 Οκτωβρίου Το 2016 είναι αναμφισβήτητα ένα κρίσιμο έτος για την επανεκκίνηση της ελληνικής οικονομίας όπου το ελ- ληνικό τραπεζικό σύστημα οφείλει να έχει τον πρω- ταγωνιστικό ρόλο, ώστε η Ελλάδα να εξέλθει το συ- ντομότερο δυνατόν από την ύφεση και συνάμα να επιτευχθεί …Read More

Η εξέλιξη και διάρθρωση του δημοσίου χρέους

Τριαντόπουλος, Χρήστος, (2016), “Η εξέλιξη και διάρθρωση του δημοσίου χρέους”, ΚΕΠΕ, 21 Οκτωβρίου Η πορεία του δημοσίου χρέους κατά τα επόμενα χρόνια θα καθοριστεί τόσο από τη δημοσιονομική και μακροοικονομική κατάσταση της χώρας, όσο και από μέτρα ελάφρυνσης και ενδυνάμωσης της βιωσι- μότητάς του στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος οικονο- μικής πολιτικής του Mηχανισμού Στήριξης ΕΕ/ΕΚΤ/ ∆ΝΤ. Παράλληλα με τα διάφορα σενάρια ανάλυσης της βιωσιμότητας, το δημόσιο χρέος εκτιμάται το 2016, …Read More

How to boost export performance in Greece

de la Maisonneuve, Christine, (2016), “How to boost export performance in Greece”, OECD Publishing, 13 Μαΐου This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The decline in unit labour costs since the beginning of the crisis has restored cost competitiveness, but the response of exports has been sluggish …Read More

Holding out for a better deal: Brinkmanship in the Greek bailout negotiations

Pitsoulis, Athanassios, Schwuchow, Soeren C., (2016), “Holding out for a better deal: Brinkmanship in the Greek bailout negotiations”, European Journal of Political Economy, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου Greece and its creditors concluded negotiations over a third bailout by signing a Memorandum of Understanding on 19 August 2015. The dominant view among most economic policy analysts and commentators seems to be that the actions of the Greek government in the months before the deal had …Read More

This radicalisation which is not one: contentious politics against the backdrop of the Greek crisis

Voutyras, Savvas, (2016), “This radicalisation which is not one: contentious politics against the backdrop of the Greek crisis”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Volume 24 Issue 2, 4 Μαρτίου Since the eruption of the Greek economic crisis in 2010 and the introduction of austerity policies, Greece’s public space has become a theatre of intense political conflict in the form of social unrest, mass mobilisations, symbolic and physical clashes and political instability. …Read More