We provide rankings of Greek-speaking economics departments based on pages published in the ‘Diamond List’ journals. For the period 1993-1998, the University of Cyprus, the Athens University of business and Economics and the University of Crete are ranked first, second and third, respectively.

In this paper we estimate output, input and total factor productivity growth indices for the Cyprus manufacturing sector during the period of 1977-1994. We also compare the Cyprus manufacturing industries with the manufacturing industries of advanced industrialized European Union countries in...

Using a Solow-Swan model with a stochastic saving rate and stochastic productivity we analyse the distributions of parameter estimates that emerge under various choices of technology, and of the dimension of the panel on which cross-section regressions are based. There are distinct asymmetries...

The annual Eurovision Song Contest provides a setting where Europeans can express their sentiments about other countries without regard to political incentives. Analysing voting data from the 25 contests between 1981 and 2005, we find strong evidence for the existence of clusters of countries...