This short empirical paper examines the unemployment dynamics in Greece both in the long run and during the current crisis. Using monthly data from 2001 until mid-2012 it finds that unemployment fluctuations were predominantly driven by the job finding rate. Nevertheless, during the current...

We investigate the impact of alternative certifying institutions on firms' incentives to engage in costly Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities as well as their relative market and societal implications. We find that the CSR certification standard is the lowest under a for-profit...

In contrast with previous studies we assume no ex-ante commitment over the �price or quantity� type of contract which downstream firms will independently offer consumers in a two-tier oligopoly. Under competing vertical chains, we propose...

We investigate for the individual and relative accuracy of two major market power tests: the Herfindahl Hirschman Index (HHI), and the merger simulation model of unilateral effects. We propose a methodology to compare the predictive and screening power of both tests by implementing them in a...

This study uses a telephone field experiment to assess the degree of discrimination against female Albanians in Athenian rental housing markets. By examining a large sample represented by 122 urban areas we found that Albanians faced lower access to housing than the corresponding probability for...

Our analysis is based on the 2008 Athens Area Study and exploits detailed information regarding health impairments and labour market outcomes for Greek males. Distinguishing between healthy and heath-impaired employees who have or do not have work limitations, the unobserved productivity effect...

In this paper I analyze and summarize a broad list of different merger motives that has been proposed in the literature. I propose a categorization of such motives based on the residual claimant of the mergers gains, namely the owners or the managers of the merging firms, and on welfare effects....