The aim of this study is to assess whether fuel prices in Greece respond asymmetrically to changes in the global oil prices. To do so, we depart from the current practice in the literature that focuses on fuel prices. Rather, we consider the mark-up of both the refineries and retailers. Even...

Advertising expenditure is a basic channel in the transmission mechanism of a firm's diversification product, which runs in a highly concentrated sector, as is the mobile telecommunication market in Greece. This strategy of marketing aims to develop a comparative advantage for the firm ensuring...

This paper investigates empirically the long-run linkages between sectoral relative prices and labor productivities implied by the Balassa (1964) and Samuelson (1964) framework. The role of wage non-homogeneity across sectors is explored by incorporating sectoral wages into the analysis. The...

The aim of this study is to assess whether fuel prices in Greece respond asymmetrically to changes in the global oil prices. To do so, we depart from the current practice in the literature that focuses on fuel prices. Rather, we consider the mark-up of both the refineries and retailers. Even...

The influx of shipping receipts from the world's leading fleet has been critical for the development of the Greek economy. Following the fateful September of 2008, the range and speed of the shift in direction of the freight rates, combined with the general economic and credit climate, have had...

Building on a proper selection of macroeconomic variables for constructing a GDP forecasting multivariate model (Kazanas, 2017), this paper evaluates whether alternative Bayesian model specifications can provide greater forecasting accuracy compared to a standard VECM model. To that end, two...