Psycharis, Yannis, Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, Tselios, Vassilis, (2016), “Liberals, Socialists, and pork-barrel politics in Greece”, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Ιούνιος This paper analyses the role of pork-barrel politics in the allocation of public investment expenditures in Greece. It proposes a model which explicitly relates the allocation of public investment to electoral results using a unique dataset covering the period from the restoration of democracy in 1974 until 2009, just before the Great Recession …Read More
Greeks and Social Europe
Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, (2016), “Greeks and Social Europe”, EU Forum, 8 Ιουνίου In pre-crisis Greece, Social Europe used to mean a welcome invitation to make Greece’s living standards converge with those of the rest of the EU. It also meant a less welcome push to introduce into Greece labour market and pension reforms, which would alter a patronage-based divide between insiders and outsiders. European social policies, including active labor market policies …Read More
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Μια Αποδοτικότερη Πολιτική για την Καταπολέμηση της Ακραίας Φτώχειας
Ματσαγγάνης, Μάνος, Λεβέντη, Χρύσα, Καναβιτσά, Ελένη, Φλεβοτόμου, Μαρία, (2016), “Μια Αποδοτικότερη Πολιτική για την Καταπολέμηση της Ακραίας Φτώχειας”, ΔιαΝΕΟσις, Ιούνιος Τι είναι η φτώχεια; Ποιος είναι φτωχός; Ποιο είναι το αληθινό πρόσωπο του προβλήματος στην Ελλάδα, και πώς έχει επηρεαστεί από την οικονομική κρίση των τελευταίων χρόνων; Για να αναλύσει τη φύση και το μέγεθος του προβλήματος, και για να καταλήξει στη διατύπωση συγκεκριμένων προτάσεων αντιμετώπισής του, η διαΝΕΟσις διεξήγαγε μια διπλή έρευνα. Αυτή …Read More
Ποιό είναι το χειρότερο;
Τσούκαλης, Λουκάς, (2016), “Ποιό είναι το χειρότερο; “, Η Καθημερινή, 5 Ιουνίου Σκέφτομαι μερικές φορές ποιο ήταν το χειρότερο από όλα τα δεινά που έπληξαν τη χώρα τα τελευταία χρόνια: ένας καταιγισμός αρνητικών εξελίξεων που μας σπρώχνει ολοένα και περισσότερο προς τα κάτω, ένας συνεχής φαύλος κύκλος. Είναι, άραγε, η μεγάλη υποβάθμιση του βιοτικού μας επιπέδου το χειρότερο που μας συνέβη; Σε σταθερές τιμές, το εθνικό προϊόν έχει ήδη πάει πίσω …Read More
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Can Greece shake off its political passivity?
Petsinis, Vassilis, (2016), “Can Greece shake off its political passivity?”, European Council of Foreign Relations, 27 Μαΐου The public mood in Greece has gone through three stages since January 2015: optimism, agony, and passivity. The first stage, optimism, corresponds to the first months after Syriza’s victory in the elections of January 2015, when a positive turn for Greece seemed possible in spite of the critical situation in the country. The second stage, …Read More
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Greece and the EU. Lessons from a Long-lasting Crisis
Pol Morillas, Thanos Dokos, (2016), “Greece and the EU. Lessons from a Long-lasting Crisis”, CIDOB Monographs, Μάϊος Less than a year ago, the Greek crisis reached its highest level of tension. After arduous negotiations, the Greek government and its creditors signed the agreement for a third bailout in July 2015,which should provide liquidity to the Greek public sector in return for a severe programme of deficit adjustment and structural reforms. At …Read More
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Greece : Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis-Updated Estimates and Further Considerations
IMF, “Greece : Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis-Updated Estimates and Further Considerations”, Country Report No. 16/130, 23 Μαϊου Greece continues to face a daunting fiscal consolidation challenge. After seven years of recession and a structural adjustment of 16 percent of GDP, Greece has only managed to achieve a small primary surplus in 2015, and this due to sizeable one-off factors. This is still far away from its ambitious medium-term primary surplus target of …Read More
Policing the crisis in Greece: The others’ side of the story
Vasilaki, Rosa, (2016), “Policing the crisis in Greece: The others’ side of the story”, GreeSE Paper No.98, Απρίλιος 2016 This article looks at the experience of policing protests in Greece during the period of the crisis from the point of view of police officers. Policing in Greece – and especially the subjective experience of police officers themselves – is a non-subject of sociological research for historical and political reasons peculiar to Greece …Read More
The ECB grants debt relief to all Eurozone nations except Greece
De Grauwe, Paul, (2016), “The ECB grants debt relief to all Eurozone nations except Greece”, Voxeu, 13 Μαΐου Greece may be about to get some debt relief, although there is still resistance to the idea. This column argues that the ECB has been providing other Eurozone countries with debt relief since early 2015 through its programme of quantitative easing. The reason given for excluding Greece from the QE programme – the ‘quality’ …Read More
Political budget cycles and reelection prospects in Greece’s municipalities
Chortareas, Georgios, Logothetis, Vasileios, Papandreou, Andreas A., (2016), “Political budget cycles and reelection prospects in Greece’s municipalities”, European Journal of Political Economy, Μάιος This paper considers the presence of political budget cycles in Greece’s municipalities. We construct a new dataset from primary sources and we find strong evidence of pre-electoral manipulation through increased expenditures and excessive borrowing. We use a dynamic panel data approach producing evidence of opportunistic behavior in local government …Read More