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Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments
Feyrer, James - 2010
related to the island's GDP per capita and negatively related to infant mortality. This basic relationship is also found to …
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Tax Evasion Across Industries : Soft Credit Evidence from Greece
Artavanis, Nikolaos T. - 2016
We document that in semiformal economies, banks lend to tax-evading individuals based on the bank's assessment of the individual's true income. This observation leads to a novel approach to estimate tax evasion. We use microdata on household credit from a Greek bank, and replicate the bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003610
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The Analytics of the Greek Crisis
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2016
decline in Greece's output, especially investment, is deeper and more persistent than in almost any crisis on record over that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988078
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Intermediated Trade
Antras, Pol - 2010
This paper develops a simple model of international trade with intermediation. We consider an economy with two islands and two types of agents, farmers and traders. Farmers can produce two goods, but in order to sell these goods in centralized (Walrasian) markets, they need to be matched with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147609
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Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows : The Ecb's Rescue Facility
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011
destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118098
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Political Credit Cycles : The Case of the Euro Zone
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2013
process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084731
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Persistency in Teachers’ Grading Bias and Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes : University Admissions Exams and Choice of Field of Study
Lavy, Victor - 2019
university field of study. We use data from a large number of high schools in Greece, where the performance in these high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867253
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The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2019
of GDP by 2016. Informed by a detailed analysis of macroeconomic patterns in Greece, we estimate a rich dynamic general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869264
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Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?
Kedagni, Desire - 2019
Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872318
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Greek Budget Realities : No Easy Options
House, Christopher L. - 2015
As of August 2015, Greece's loan repayments due to external creditors through 2057 summed to €319.5 billion, requiring … sufficient to increase Greece's primary balance by one percent of 2014 GDP – roughly a quarter of Greece's total debt obligations … overestimate the amount of actual revenue that Greece would raise due to the endogenous adjustment of capital and labor. Meeting …
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