The first stream of economic studies on public policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the stringency, the effectiveness, and the impact of the countries' interventions and paid rather little attention to the corresponding means used to support them. The present paper...

The first stream of economic studies on public policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the stringency, the effectiveness, and the impact of the countries' interventions and paid rather little attention to the corresponding means used to support them. The present paper...

In the modern globalized economy there are some concepts which are very important for the current socio-economic system. One of them is competition. Though in classical political economy, the economic realm, with competition as its centerpiece, seems to be carrying it over all other fields,...

Rural areas so-called "fragile" have rarely been object of theoretical and methodological approach, aiming at delimiting the concept of fragility and at specifying his components. As well as there is no theoretical approach to define these milieus, there is no either general agreement on the...

This paper investigates the importance of territorial characteristics on small and medium-sized firms’ (SMEs) competitiveness. The analysis is based on primary data collected through questionnaires from 374 firms located in Bari (Italy), Varna (Bulgaria) and Thessaloniki (Greece). These firms...

Les conditions de vie dans les grandes villes de Grèce, plus spécialement dans l’agglomération d’Athènes et de Thessalonique, se sont très fortement dégradées au cours des cinq dernières années de crise. Le pays connaît des niveaux de chômage jamais atteints, alors que la...