Hope, Κ. (2014) “Greece seeks tax cut from troika after years of belt-tightening“, Financial Times, 01 Σεπτεμβρίου. Greece is seeking to persuade its international creditors that it is entitled to a 2015 tax cut after years of wrenching austerity since the country is now on track to outperform its fiscal targets by a comfortable margin this year. Gikas Hardouvelis, a technocrat who took over in July as finance minister, …Read More
Τσούκαλης, Λ. (2014) “Περιμένοντας το θαύμα;“, Εφημερίδα «Η Καθημερινή», 10 Αυγούστου. Ενας κόσμος του οποίου το κέντρο βάρους μετακινείται σταθερά προς Ανατολάς, που αλλάζει με εξαιρετικά γρήγορους ρυθμούς, με πολλά σημεία ανάφλεξης που απειλούν να πάρουν επικίνδυνες διαστάσεις, μια δημοκρατική αυτοκρατορία στην Ευρώπη, που αναμετριέται με την Ιστορία προσπαθώντας με ειρηνικό τρόπο να ξεπεράσει την εθνική κυριαρχία αλλά εδώ και μερικά χρόνια βρίσκεται σε βαθιά κρίση, και μια Ελλάδα …Read More
Papadimitriou, Β. D. & Toay, T. (2014) “Co-operative Banking in Greece: A Proposal for Rural Reinvestment and Urban Entrepreneurship“, Levy Economics Institute, Research Project Reports, Ιούλιος. The crisis in Greece is persistent and ongoing. After six years of deepening recession, real GDP has shrunk by more than 25 percent, with total unemployment now standing at 27.2 percent. Clearly, reviving growth and creating jobs should be at the top of …Read More
Giannitsis T., I. Kastelli, 2014, “Industrial policy in times of crisis: the case of Greece” in Teixeira Α.Α.C., E. Silva, R. Paes Mamede (eds.), Structural Change, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy: Painful Lessons from the European Periphery, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York. Synopsis Chapter 11 addresses the role of industrial policy in the process of overcoming the economic crisis in Greece. The rationale of such a …Read More
Wodak, R. (2014) “It would be dangerous to view modern European populism as a triumph of style over substance“, LSE EUROPP, 23 Ιουλίου. The success of populist and Eurosceptic parties was one of the key narratives to emerge from the European Parliament elections in May. Ruth Wodak writes on the platforms which underpin these parties, noting that there is no one-size-fits-all explanation for why parties have gained ground in …Read More
Ζουμπουλάκης, Μ. (2014) “Τι έμαθε η Ελλάδα από την κρίση – Και πώς πρέπει να προχωρήσει“, ForeignAffairsHellenicEdition, 09 Ιουλίου. Η ελληνική οικονομία βρέθηκε μετά το 2009 στη μεγαλύτερη κρίση τής ιστορίας της. Οι αιτίες τής κρίσης είναι οικονομικές και πολιτικές. Γεννήθηκε και μεγάλωσε στο πλαίσιο του στρεβλού πελατειακού μας πολιτικού συστήματος. Χρειάζεται, λοιπόν, αλλαγή στο παραγωγικό μοντέλο τής χώρας. Αλλά αυτό δεν αλλάζει χωρίς κρατική καθοδήγηση… Σχετικές αναρτήσεις: …Read More
Tsianos, V. (2014) “It’s the Youth, Stupid! Greece’s most undervalued asset“, Eurocrisis in the Press, LSE EUROPP, 07 Ιουλίου. Numbers never lie. However the fashion of macroeconomic valuation has a long history of interpreting partially the truth that numbers are intended to resonate. During the last four years, statistical numbers regarding the Greek economy have been interpreted by multiple economists, international investors, and public policy decision makers. Amongst many …Read More
Pelagidis, Τ. & Mitsopoulos, Μ. (2014) “Greece: From Exit to Recovery?“, Brookings Institution Press, Ιούνιος Two Greek economic analysts explain the Greek financial crisis—from beginning to end. The first section of Greece: From Exit to Recovery? explores the lead up to Greece’s adoption of the euro. Authors Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos believe that the ensuing challenges were foreseeable. In fact, the authors posit that it was Greece’s difficultly …Read More
Xafa, M. (2014) “Lessons from the 2012 Greek debt restructuring“, VoxEU Organisation, 25 Ιουνίου. The 2012 Greek debt restructuring was the largest one in the history of sovereign defaults. This column discusses the lessons from this historically unprecedented episode. Delaying the restructuring implied that externally held debt remained higher than it would have been otherwise. Supportive crisis management is necessary for smooth restructuring to take place in a currency …Read More
Antonopoulos, R. Adam, S., Kim, K., Masterson, T. & Papadimitriou, D. (2014) “Responding to the Unemployment Challenge, a Job Guarantee Proposal for Greece“, Research Project Report, Levy Economics Institute, Απρίλιος. This report presents the findings from a study undertaken by the Levy Institute in 2013 in collaboration with the Observatory of Economic and Social Developments of the Labour Institute of the Greek General Confederation of Labour. It uses as …Read More
