Naftemporiki – DIW Berlin

Seven years into the crisis there are nary any conditions for a dynamic Grexit from the economic crisis, an extended period ...

When comparing Greece with similarly sized Eurozone states, such as Finland, the Netherlands, or Belgium, an important difference becomes clear: ...

VAT is the Greek State's most important source of revenue. From 2000 to 2012 it amounted, on average, to 7.15% ...

Administrative reform is the elephant in the room. Greek citizens and creditors alike are aware of the dysfunctional of the Greek ...

The Stability and Growth Pact defines upper ceilings for public debt that are often seen as a precondition for higher ...

Six years after the Memorandum I (2010) and the presence of two new memoranda (2012, 2015) between the Greek government ...

Even before the economic crisis Greece’s education sector was unreformed, lacking independent evaluation mechanisms that would provide incentives to promote ...

During the crisis Greek governments, under pressure from the Troika, dramatically increased taxes on real estate ownership. Receipts from these ...

Groundhog day in Athens: the Greek parliament has decided on yet another round of pension cuts, tax hikes and contingent ...

In 2014, there was evidence that Greece’s economic situation would take a turn for the better for the first time ...

In the 15 years following Greece’s accession to the EU in January 1981, its economy grew by less than 1% ...

Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Greek economy experienced a double-dip recession. The Greek GDP is almost 30 percent ...