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macroeconomics. The current policy, however, provides a credible platform for sustainable growth. Greece has entered the process of …-se determining growth, supply-side reforms and institutional performance are; and for Greece both are better served within the EMU …
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of the restructuring left money on the table from the perspective of Greece, created a large risk for European taxpayers …
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We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …
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and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece’s foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating …
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony … network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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