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From Nothing to Too Much : Regulatory Reform in Greece

Hatzis, Aristides N.; Nalpantidou, Sonia - 2013

After many years of an impasse in attempts to introduce Regulatory Impact Assessment to Greece the Greek Prime Minister … and every Region although the experts who can undertake this task in Greece are very few. The first RIAs (which are not … publicly available) proved to be of a very low quality and extremely simplistic. The introduction of such a system in Greece is …

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The Analytics of the Greek Crisis

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2016

decline in Greece's output, especially investment, is deeper and more persistent than in almost any crisis on record over that …

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The Human Side of Austerity : Health Spending and Outcomes During the Greek Crisis

Perotti, Roberto - 2018

between budget cuts and health outcomes. Health spending and inputs were very high in Greece before the crisis: in several …

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Covid-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...

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Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows : The Ecb's Rescue Facility

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011

destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …

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Earnings Determination and Taxes : Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece

Saez, Emmanuel - 2010

This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All …

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Political Credit Cycles : The Case of the Euro Zone

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2013

process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …

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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Badarinza, Cristian - 2014

The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...

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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts

Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014

Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...

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Sovereign Default, Debt Restructuring, and Recovery Rates : Was the Argentinean “Haircut” Excessive?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2015

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Greece. The results suggest that the haircut imposed by Argentina in its 2005 restructuring (75 …

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