...Athanasios Tsagkanos; Dimitrios Koumanakos; Michalis Pavlakis Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the transmission of volatility between business confidence index and stock market indices in Greece. The country remains the riskiest project in European Union (EU) and previous studies...

...Kjell Hausken; Jonathan W. Welburn Purpose The article develops a model to interpret the 2010–2018 financial crisis in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus, and the loan programs from the IL (International Lender; i.e. the European Union, the European Commission, and the International...

...@derby.ac.uk 10 11 2019 22 04 2020 22 07 2020 23 07 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Airbnb listings Hotel revenues Tourist destinations Panel GMM method Greece The tourism industry has a strong...

...Athanasios Tsagkanos; Costas Siriopoulos; Konstantina Vartholomatou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine two novel theories that concern the relationship between stock market development (SMD) and foreign direct investment (FDI). The authors focus on Greece that was demoted...

.... Design/methodology/approach – The author uses a dynamic general equilibrium closed economy model to compute the dynamic Laffer curves for Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain for different class of taxes. The general equilibrium effects of the interaction of labor tax, consumption tax and capital tax...

... model, the authors report that branch dissatisfaction and high branch fees have no impact to the internet banking adoption in Greece, therefore Greek customers prefer to visit branches and are willing to pay high fees for the transactions. However, the authors find that ATM users are more likely...

...Ilias Livanos; Konstantinos Pouliakas Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece, an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies...

... and expenditures in the case of Greece, the results have been supportive of either the spend‐tax or fiscal synchronization hypotheses. The spend‐tax hypothesis has been supported in studies by Ram (1988) , Joulfaian and Mookerjee (1991) , Provopoulos and Zambaras (1991) , Kollias and Makrydakis (1995...

... to host the summer Olympic Games. On 5 September 1997 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Athens (Greece) would host the 2004 Olympic Games. Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Laussanne, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer...

...Ioannis Theodossiou; Grigoris Zarotiadis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of labor market experience among the unemployed in a less developed area in Greece (the north‐western region of Epirus), where unemployment has severe detrimental repercussions on the local...

...Huseyin Kalyoncu; Fatih Yucel Purpose The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between defense expenditure and economic growth for Turkey and Greece in the period of 1956‐2003 using yearly data. Design/methodology/approach The Engle‐Granger cointegration methodology...

...Evangelia Papapetrou Purpose To study the dynamic relationship between saving‐investment in Greece during a period of structural changes with policy regime changes employing different methods of estimation. Design/methodology/approach Different empirical methods are used to estimate the time...

...George Hondroyiannis This paper investigates the long‐ and short‐run determinants of aggregate private savings in Greece employing data over the period 1961‐2000. The long‐run savings function is estimated based on an extended life‐cycle hypothesis taking into account the economic and demographic...

... is the independent variable. To address this first presents a conceptual framework that links manufacturing to competitiveness and deindustrialisation and tests it for a case of serious apparent deindustrialisation and “relative decline”, that of Greece, in the context of a novel “simultaneous equation model...

..., Greece’s overall employment has correspondingly increased by 0.3 and 1.3 per cent. The service sector was par excellence the big creator of new jobs, amounting to about 800,000, during the period 1981‐96, whereas the secondary sector lost about 50,000 jobs. Construction, which was in the past...

... of incumbent firms showed a reverse relationship. The total assets of the average incumbent firm in sectors 30‐37 reached 127.9 million drachmas, while in the rest of the sectors they reached 83.6 million drachmas. The sectoral or industrial policy followed in the 1980s in Greece was based on Law 1262/82...