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The Greek Debt Crisis : Likely Causes, Mechanics and Outcomes
Arghyrou, Michael - 2010
We use insights from the literature on currency crises to offer an analytical treatment of the crisis in the market for Greek government bonds. We argue that the crisis itself and its escalating nature are very likely to be the result of: (a) steady deterioration of Greek macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135455
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The Greek Crisis : Causes and Consequences
Garcia Pascual, Antonio I. - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster … solvency and closing the competitiveness gap. Yet we think Greece stands a better chance of accomplishing these goals from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117780
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The Greek Crisis and Financial Assistance Programmes : An Evaluation
Arghyrou, Michael - 2015
programme (2012-14) achieved progress towards recovery but this was fragile and was cancelled out by Greece's stand-off with her … lenders in the first half of 2015. The stand-off was one that predictably Greece could not win, due to the lack of a credible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010491
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How to Handle the Crisis in Greece? Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economics Experts
Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
crisis in Greece. 61.9% of the experts surveyed were not in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone in the course of the … Republic, Denmark, and Slovakia were in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone. The share of experts who were in favour of … Greece staying in the Eurozone increased to 69.8% in October 2015. 72.4% of experts surveyed believed that the IMF should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992606
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015
convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include … productivity increases in Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012270
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281
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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2021
Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315668
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Survival of New Firms in the Brazilian Franchising Segment : An Empirical Study
Facanha, Luis Otavio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente; … - 2021
The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316043
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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk
Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2017
From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950299
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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing : An Econometric Study
Facanha, Luis Otavio - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110414