The past Greek crisis experience is more or less terra incognita. In all historical empirical studies Greece is systematically neglected or included only sporadically in their cross-country samples. In the national literature too there is little on this topic. In this paper we focus on the Greek...

During the ongoing crisis in Greece, the phenomenon of human capital flight, commonly known as “brain drain”, has grown to large proportions. Between 2008 and 2013, almost 223 thousand Greek residents aged 25-39, whether foreign-born or native, left the country permanently for more advanced...

The main goal of this paper is to trace the long record of financial crises and financial market regulation from the perspective of an emerging economy. Two questions are addressed: first, what explains the incidence and severity of financial crises in an emerging market economy? And, second,...