A common problem in empirical studies dealing with the identification of the poor is that their results tend to be sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis...

The paper examines the structure of inequality in Greece using the micro-data of a Household Budget Survey carried out in 1987/88.

This paper examines the recent developments in the Greek system of urban centres, in order to assess the validity of the view that trends of deconcentration have been in operation during the last decade. The estimation of the rank-size distribution function for all the post-war census years show...

The paper presents a theoretical background for the analysis of the relationship between fertility and a number of socio-economic factors associated with the process of economic development and analyses empirically this relationship within a cross-country framework.

Relations between Greece and United States, particularly when viewed from the perspective of Athens, still remain, helf a century after the Truman Doctrine, relations of Greek dependence on the U.S. when it comes to matters of security.

The main purpose of this short analysis is to present an overview of the main developments of the CAP and to outline its prospects beyond the turn of the century taking into account the enlargement of the European Union and the negotiations with the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

The paper takes up Basesian inference in linear models with disturbances from a non-central Student-t distribution.

This paper reviews recent theories that address cooperation and coordination issues in the conduct of fiscal policy in an economic union. This is done by discussing these issues in a complete, logically consistent framework that connects the various problems concerning fiscal policy in an...

This paper constructs a general quilibrium trade model of a small open economy producing an exported good, an imported good and a non-traded good by using two or more factors of production, one of which, namely capital, is imperfectly internationally mobile.

The paper considers Caratheodory's Theorem on the properties of the Inverse of the Bordered Hessian of an Optimization Problem. After a new proof of the complete theorem, using matrix theory methods, the paper considers the sensitivity of the optimal solution in parameters appearing either in...