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Corporate Governance Rating and Family Firms: The Greek Case

Spanos, Loukas; Tsipouri, Lena; Xanthakis, Manolis - EconWPA - 2005

the owners in the management. Family firm is the most common form of business in Greece. Hence, the governance structures … explore the main aspects of CG of family-owned listed companies in Greece. For this purpose, we apply a specific CG rating … on the current state of corporate governance in Greece. Each firm is rated among the 120 total number of companies (both …

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MODELING INTEREST RATE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS IN GREECE. IS THERE ANY STRUCTURAL BREAK AFTER EMU?

CHIONIS, DIONYSIOS; LEON, COSTAS - EconWPA - 2005

We examine the transmission process of the policy rate to the lending and deposit rates in Greece for the period 1996 … of Greece into EMU in 2001. The bank rates become much more responsive to the policy rate in terms of impact multipliers …

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Corporate governance in Greece: developments and policy implications

Spanos, Loukas - EconWPA - 2005

present the main aspects of corporate governance in Greece, contributing to the relevant growing body of literature, and (ii …) to place the current corporate governance developments and trends in Greece within the international debate, especially … governance debate and its implication at the EU level. Secondly, I describe the corporate governance framework in Greece in the …

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Trade liberalisation under the Doha Development Agenda Options and consequences for Africa

Achterbosch, Tom; Hammouda, Hakim Ben; Osakwe, Patrick; … - EconWPA - 2004

This study provides a quantitative estimate of the potential economic consequences of multilateral trade reform under the WTO for Africa using a framework that explicitly incorporates issues of concern to the region, such as preference erosion, loss of tariff revenue, and trade facilitation. It...

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Cheap Food Policy: Fact or Rhetoric

Miller, James; Coble, Keith - EconWPA - 2005

these payments to farmers ultimately result in lower food costs for consumers. More recently, farm policy has been … relatively inexpensive. This paper econometrically evaluates the impact of direct government payments to farmers from 1960 …

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Agricultural policies and farm structures - agent-based simulation and application to EU-policy reform

Happe, Kathrin - EconWPA - 2005

policy making in addition to ensuring a fair standard of living for farmers. To achieve these goals, the agricultural sector …

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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?

James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …

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Is corporatism feasible?

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...

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What ever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or by macroeconomic mismanagement?

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2005

employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …

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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom

Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …

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