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Strategic Analysis
March 26, 2025
Greece: Growing on an Unsustainable Path
AbstractGreece has been among the fastest growing economies among the EU member states in the post-COVID-19 period. However, in a previous (February 2024) report, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza raised serious concerns regarding Greece’s dependency on imports. In their latest report, the authors argue that these problems have worsened, and the […]
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Strategic Analysis
February 15, 2024
Greece: Time to Reduce the Dependency on Imports
AbstractIn this report, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Nikolaos Rodousakis, Giuliano T. Yajima, and Gennaro Zezza investigate the determinants of the recent performance of the Greek economy. Despite geopolitical instability from the continuing Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars and higher-than-expected inflation rates, the country has managed to register the highest growth rates among eurozone member-states in 2021 and […]
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Strategic Analysis
October 13, 2022
Ελλάδα: Ανάκαμψη, ή μια νέα Ύφεση;
AbstractΣε αυτή τη στρατηγική ανάλυση, ο Πρόεδρος του Ινστιτούτου Δημήτρης Παπαδημητρίου, ο ερευνητής Gennaro Zezza και ο επιστημονικός συνεργάτης Νίκος Ροδουσάκης αναλύουν τις μεσοπρόθεσμες προοπτικές για την ελληνική οικονομία, σε μια περίοδο αυξανόμενης αβεβαιότητας, λόγω των γεωπολιτικών αναταραχών που προέρχονται από την Ρώσο-Ουκρανική σύγκρουση με αντίκτυπό το υψηλό κόστος ενέργειας και αυξημένων διεθνών τιμών εισαγόμενων […]
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Strategic Analysis
October 13, 2022
Greece: Recovery, or Another Recession?
AbstractIn this strategic analysis, Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Senior Scholar Gennaro Zezza, and Research Associate Nikolaos Rodousakis discuss the medium-term prospects for the Greek economy in a time of increasing uncertainty—due to the geopolitical turbulence emanating from the Ukraine–Russian conflict, with its impact on the cost of energy, as well as the increase in […]
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Working Paper No. 1010
September 06, 2022
Reflections on Angela Merkel’s Career as Chancellor of Germany and the Greek Financial Odyssey
AbstractAngela Merkel is the second-longest-serving chancellor of modern Germany, with more than 16 years in office. During her tenure there were many years of economic stability, but there were also years of domestic, EU, and geopolitical tensions. Merkel inherited an economy that was recovering after the launching of probusiness policies known as the Hartz I […]
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Policy Notes No. 2
April 22, 2022
A Race to the Bottom
AbstractMore than a decade after the 2009 crisis, the standards of living of the Greek population are still contracting and the prospects are gloomy. In this policy note, Vlassis Missos, Research Associate Nikolaos Rodousakis, and George Soklis deal with how to approach the measurement of income loss and poverty in Greece and argue for the […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
February 25, 2022
Τι συμβαίνει με τα νέα δεδομένα των ελληνικών Εθνικών Λογαριασμών;
AbstractTο 2020, η Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ΕΛΣΤΑΤ) ξεκίνησε την αναθεώρηση των εθνικών λογαριασμών για την Ελλάδα, προκειμένου να εναρμονιστούν με το νέο Ευρωπαϊκό Σύστημα Λογαριασμών. Τα δεδομένα από τους εθνικούς λογαριασμούς έχουν αποκτήσει μεγαλύτερη σημασία ως ένα κρίσιμο σύνολο πληροφοριών για την πολιτική, ειδικά στην ευρωζώνη, καθώς πολλοί δείκτες -όπως το μέγεθος του δημόσιου ελλείμματος […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
February 25, 2022
What Is Happening to the New Greek National Accounts Data?
AbstractIn 2020, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ElStat) started a revision of the national accounts for Greece to bring them into line with the new European System of Accounts. Data from national accounts have gained more relevance as a crucial set of information for policy, especially in the eurozone, since many indicators—like the size of the […]
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Policy Notes No. 4
November 10, 2021
A Recovery for Whom?
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed multiple risks faced by economies whose production structures depend on the volatility of international conditions. In the case of Greece, this has manifested itself in the severe impact the pandemic has had on one of the linchpins of the Greek economy: the tourism sector. Vlassis Missos, Nikolaos Rodousakis, and George […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 151
June 16, 2020
Crisis, Austerity, and Fiscal Expenditure in Greece
AbstractThis policy brief provides a discussion of the relationships between austerity, Greece’s macroeconomic performance, debt sustainability, and the provision of healthcare and other social services over the last decade. It explains that austerity was imposed in the name of debt sustainability. However, there was a vicious cycle of recession and austerity: each round of austerity […]
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Working Paper No. 949
February 12, 2020
A Labor Market–Augmented Empirical Stock-Flow Consistent Model Applied to the Greek Economy
AbstractThis paper extends the empirical stock-flow consistent (SFC) literature through the introduction of distributional features and labor market institutions in a Godley-type empirical SFC model. In particular, labor market institutions, such as the minimum wage and the collective bargaining coverage rate, are considered as determinants of the wage share and, in turn, of the distribution […]
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Strategic Analysis
January 17, 2020
Greece: In Search of Investors
Abstract2019 marked the third year of the continuing economic recovery in Greece, with real GDP and employment rising, albeit at modest rates. In this Strategic Analysis we note that the expansion has mainly been driven by net exports, with tourism playing a dominant role. However, household consumption and investment are still too far below their […]
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Working Paper No. 919
January 16, 2019
On the Design of Empirical Stock-Flow-Consistent Models
AbstractWhile the literature on theoretical macroeconomic models adopting the stock-flow-consistent (SFC) approach is flourishing, few contributions cover the methodology for building a SFC empirical model for a whole country. Most contributions simply try to feed national accounting data into a theoretical model inspired by Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie (2007), albeit with different degrees of […]
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Working Paper No. 867
May 18, 2016
The Greek Public Debt Problem
AbstractThis paper examines the issue of the Greek public debt from different perspectives. We provide a historical discussion of the accumulation of Greece’s public debt since the 1960s and the role of public debt in the recent crisis. We show that the austerity imposed since 2010 has been unsuccessful in stabilizing the debt while at […]
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Policy Notes No. 5
August 05, 2015
The BRICS Initiatives in the Current Global Conjuncture
AbstractDeveloping countries, led by China and other BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, and South Africa), have been successfully organizing alternative sources of credit flows, aiming for financial stability, growth, and development. With their goals of avoiding International Monetary Fund loan conditionality and the dominance of the US dollar in global finance, these new BRICS-led institutions […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
February 12, 2015
Europe at the Crossroads
AbstractGiven the continuing divergence between progress in the monetary field and political integration in the euro area, the German interest in imposing austerity may be seen as representing an attempt to achieve, de facto, accelerated progress toward political union; progress that has long been regarded by Germany as a precondition for the success of monetary […]
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Policy Notes No. 1
February 12, 2015
Η Ευρώπη στο σταυροδρόμι
AbstractΜε δεδομένη τη συνεχιζόμενη απόκλιση ανάμεσα στην πρόοδο στον τομέα της νομισματικής και της πολιτικής ολοκλήρωσης στη ζώνη του ευρώ, το ενδιαφέρον της Γερμανίας σχετικά με την επιβολή της λιτότητας μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ότι αντιπροσωπεύει μια προσπάθεια για την επιτάχυνση της προόδου προς την πολιτική ένωση, η πρόοδος της οποίας θεωρείται από τη Γερμανία ως […]
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Public Policy Brief No. 133
May 14, 2014
Dead Economic Dogmas Trump Recovery: The Continuing Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery
AbstractThe “happy talk” emanating from eurozone officials regarding the economic crises in the periphery deserves some vigorous pushback. Focusing on the four bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, Research Associate and Policy Fellow C. J. Polychroniou argues in this policy brief that, contrary to the burgeoning optimism in official communications, these countries’ economies […]
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