An error correction framework with non-linear adjustment is used to investigate the presence of asymmetries in the adjustment of deposit and lending rates and to changes in interbank rates. There is evidence of asymmetric adjustment for a number of countries, but there are no asymmetries...

This article considers mainly the effect of advertising and the antismoking campaign on the consumption of cigarettes in Greece. For this purpose, a non monotonic lag distributed model has been selected. The relevant estimates are based on monthly data for the period 1977-99. The results have...

This paper analyses empirically investment in housing in Greece using aggregate data for the period 1958-89 and a version of the flexible accelerator model of investment demand. Housing production is undertaken mainly by households aiming at private home ownership and is subject to significant...

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

This paper is an exercise in applied macroeconomic forecasting. We examine the forecasting power of a vector error-correction model (VECM) that is anchored by a long-run equilibrium relationship between Greek national income and productive public expenditure as suggested by the economic theory....

Despite the fact that receipts from the provision of shipping services recorded on the Greek Balance of Payments represent nearly half of the total receipts of services rendered, the factors that determine them have not been explored for the Greek economy. Therefore, the main purpose of this...

The present paper investigates whether Greek gasoline prices respond symmetrically to changes in international oil prices. The study uses all available observations and applies the TAR (Threshold Auto-Regressive) methodology, which is considered to be the most reliable econometric technique...