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Category Archives: The Greek Debt Crisis
Oct 13 2016
The Political Economy of NPLs resolution: Ownership and conditionality
Leave a commentBy Eleni Panagiotarea Greece’s non-performing exposure ratio is the second highest in Europe, largely linked to the unprecedented contraction of domestic economic activity in recent years. Causality is known to go both ways, with persistently high non-performing loans (NPLs) constituting … Continue reading
Posted by: October 13, 2016
Tagged with: conditionality, Eleni Panagiotarea, Greece, non-performing loans, third bailout programme
Sep 16 2016
The Greek crisis is a crisis of production, not of public finance
1 CommentBy Antigone Lyberaki The Greek economic crisis is a crisis of production. Its key actor is a unique feature of the economy, the Greek family firm. Seen through that prism, the crisis is simply another episode in the story of … Continue reading
Posted by: September 16, 2016
Tagged with: Antigone Lyberaki, Dutch Disease, economic crisis, economy, Greece, Greek crisis, Greek Economy, Greek GDP
Jun 14 2016
The ECB grants debt relief to all Eurozone nations except Greece
4 CommentsBy Paul De Grauwe Greece may be about to get some debt relief, although there is still resistance to the idea. This column argues that the ECB has been providing other Eurozone countries with debt relief since early 2015 through … Continue reading
Posted by: June 14, 2016
Tagged with: debt crisis, debt relief, ECB, Greece, Paul De Grauwe, quantitative easing
Apr 6 2016
Greece. The country with the half Drachma
1 CommentBy Andreas Koutras A few days after the introduction of the bank capital controls and with thousands of pensioners queuing up outside the bank branches, the Prime Minister’s Office received a piece of research on the effect of the capital … Continue reading
Posted by: April 6, 2016
Tagged with: Andreas Koutras, capital controls, drachma, Greece, Grexit, SYRIZA
Mar 9 2016
Experiments with austerity and anti-poverty policies in Greece: “Like Hodja’s donkey: it died just after it learned not to eat”
Leave a commentBy Vassilis P. Arapoglou In this brief note I want to summarize the scope of my presentation at the LSE research seminar on March 8, 2016. My aim is to reflect upon the findings of a research project on homelessness … Continue reading
Posted by: March 9, 2016
Tagged with: Athens, fieldwork, Greek crisis, homelessness, poverty, Vassilis Arapoglou
Oct 15 2015
On Structural Reforms and Debt Relief
Leave a commentBy Prof Costas Milas, Dr Theodore Panagiotidis and Periklis Boumparis The recent trip of the Greek Prime Minister to the US was dominated by repeated calls for debt relief. The Greek pile of debt, currently at 177% of the country’s GDP, is … Continue reading
Posted by: October 15, 2015
Tagged with: Theodore Panagiotidis
Jul 6 2015
Experts react: Greek referendum
Leave a commentThe final result of the Greek referendum saw 61.3 per cent of voters reject the proposal, with 38.7 per cent voting in favour. EUROPP’s contributors express their reactions to the result and what it could mean for Greece’s future in … Continue reading
Posted by: July 6, 2015
Jul 3 2015
The IMF’s Preliminary Draft Debt Sustainability Analysis: what does it mean?
4 CommentsBy Vassilis Monastiriotis The release of the latest analysis by the IMF on the sustainability of the Greek debt, which states loudly that Greece will need not only a hefty new bailout but also a further debt restructuring, fueled again … Continue reading
Posted by: July 3, 2015
Jun 26 2015
When Populism Fails
Leave a commentBy Kevin Featherstone Some years ago at the start of the crisis, I wrote in ‘Kathimerini’ that Greece might have to experience a ‘catastrophe’ before it would truly reform and get onto a better economic path. I hoped that such … Continue reading
Posted by: June 26, 2015
Jun 10 2015
The negotiation that never happened…
7 Commentsby Vassilis Monastiriotis There are – there have always been – two approaches to the Greek crisis. One, that realises that there is a domestic problem (high debt, propensity to produce new debts, state and market inefficiencies, weak institutions … Continue reading
Posted by: June 10, 2015