The Hellenic Observatory at LSE celebrates its 20th anniversary
By Kevin Featherstone The Hellenic Observatory, located in LSE’s European Institute, celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. Kevin Featherstone looks back at its story so far. In the mid-1990s, a...
View ArticleThe ECB grants debt relief to all Eurozone nations except Greece
By 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...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of NPLs resolution: Ownership and conditionality
By 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...
View ArticleThe Greek crisis: An autopsy
By Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Thomas Philippon, Dimitri Vayanos The Greek crisis is one of the worst in history, even in the context of recorded ‘trifecta’ crises – the combination of a sudden stop...
View ArticleBrain drain and the Greek crisis
By Lois Labrianidis and Manolis Pratsinakis In the context of the debt crisis, recession, austerity and their socio-political consequences, Greece is experiencing a new major wave of out-migration....
View ArticleGender and the Greek crisis: towards a risk assessment
By Antigone Lyberaki and Platon Tinios The Greek crisis is uniquely long and deep; while it is unfolding, secular trends in ageing, technology and globalization are changing the ways people work and...
View ArticleEconomic growth for Greece’s trade partners and Greek export growth
By Theodore Panagiotidis and Konstantinos Chisiridis This note investigates two issues: First, to identify the most important trade partners of Greece over the last twenty years and how their relative...
View ArticleChanging the policy agenda? The impact of the Golden Dawn on Greek party...
By Daphne Halikiopoulou, Kyriaki Nanou and Sofia Vasilopoulou What has been the impact of the Golden Dawn on Greek party politics? From the margins of the political system during the metapolitefsi era,...
View ArticleGreek-Turkish relations and the perceptions of their elites
By Dimitris Triantaphyllou An interesting study that I recently conducted (completed in mid-December 2016) with funding from my university has revealed much about how Turkish elites view Turkish...
View ArticleReligious Pluralism and Education in Greece
By Effie Fokas and Margarita Markoviti In 2005, in Folgero v. Norway, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) set precedence highly relevant to the Greek context of religious education (RE): ‘it...
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