Introduction: The Responsibility of Knowledge, Challenges and Responses -- The Changing World and the Greek Economy Before the Crisis -- The Pre-Crisis Growth of the Greek Economy -- The Question of Growth -- Human Capital: Education, Innovation and Health -- Cultural Values, Stereotypes and...

This paper focuses on the debt recovery channel linking the dynamics of public debt to partial sovereign defaults. We build a simple model which incorporates sovereign default and a debt recovery rule. It depends on a parameter that allows for partial debt recovery. We show that the maximum...

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. Chorafas' latest book focuses on sovereign debt, sovereign risk and the developing economic and financial business climate and explains why the year of the...