In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of spin-offs' human resource organization quality and capacity within the existing four Greek Science and Technology Parks (STPs). For this purpose, we distributed a critical number of questionnaires to the spin-offs and then we analyzed...

Greece has the lowest public receipts of all the Eurozone members, and this contributes significantly to the annual budget defi cits and the extremely high level of public debt. The source of this shortfall is personal income taxation. The following article analyses the distortions in the labour...

The downward adjustment of economic activity to match the reduced competitiveness of the economy, be it within the Eurozone or outside it as some advocate, will leave the Greek economy with a low level of economic activity, which will match its reduced competitiveness, even though its total...

Last December, downtown Athens experienced three nights of street battles, arson, and looting that became headlines in the international press. We argue that the reasons for this extreme social turbulence are related to the regulatory and institutional rigidities that still prevail in Greece's...

This paper seeks to prove that the abolition of state monopoly in the provision of educational services in Continental Europe will result for the members of the educational community in spending less time towards rent protection and more time towards educational activities, something that it...

We consider whether openness is related to the aggregate technical efficiency in the OECD countries. We obtain efficiency measures using Data Envelopment Analysis and we find that our measure of openness is positively related to the technical efficiency scores

In this paper we examine for both economic convergence and openness convergence across the global economy and within specific regions. We find that convergence in openness is much more profound than income convergence. Moreover, convergence within regions takes place faster than convergence...

We proceed as follows. Section 7.2 deals with the conflicts arising from the persisting asymmetry of demand shocks, possible unfavourable effects on trade and welfare, lack of national and supranational fiscal stabilizers, low mobility and flexibility of labour and shortage of money stocks for...

In this paper, we deal with theoretical propositions and empirical evidence that are needed to explain the paradox of rapid GDP growth in the face of the dismal competitiveness of the Greek economy during 1995-2008. We show how Greece's economy structural weaknesses have hit the domestic economy...