The note by Christopoulos re-examines the national savings-domestic investments correlation in Greece for the period 1960–2000. He applies the Johansen [Johansen, S. (1988). Statistical analysis of cointegration vectors. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 8, 231–254; Johansen, S. (1991)....

In this note, the national saving–domestic investment correlation is examined in terms of an error correction model to gain some insight into the degree of capital mobility, using Greek data for the period 1960–1997. In particular, we employ cointegration analysis with an emphasis on the...

The success of the European Union is remarkable. But the current economic crisis is severely testing support. It is affecting member nations in different ways, and for some the crisis has been painful. Without individual control over their economic policies, some nations are getting frustrated....

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