In the Debt Dilemma of Developing Nations, Chris Carvounis provides an insightful overview of the external debt problems currentrly plaguing a number of developing countries. The book is neiher comprehensive in tits handling ...

The issues that concern Decentralization, Local Government, and in general State Administration are themselves of great importance. Their importance, however, is more significant during certain periods, because of special ...

This special section aims to demonstrate the limited predictability and high level of uncertainty in practically all important areas of our lives, and the implications of this. It summarizes the huge body of solid empirical ...

Effective and thorough credit-risk management is a key factor for lending institutions, as significant financial losses can arise from the borrowers’ default. Consequently, machine learning methods can measure and analyze ...

Les sujets du développement régional et des investissements privés sont nombreux et variés: juridiques. financiers, sociaux etc., ils n'ont toutefois pas «attiré», - dans leur ensemble et au même degré -l'attention des ...

Les sujets du développement régional et des investissements privés sont nombreux et variés: juridiques, financiers, sociaux etc., ils n'ont toutefois pas «attiré», - dans leur ensemble et au même degré - l'attention des ...

The behaviour of the digital consumer differs from that of the digital-internet consumer. Not with the regard to the procedure that the average consumer follows, but mostly to the «why» and «how» a consumer prefers and ...

The term «investment», as we have stated ίn former monographs, is used to describe the locking-up of capital ίn order tο make profit during a long-term period, at the risk of failure and suffering a loss.

This paper discusses the effectiveness of EU economic measures towards the pandemic crisis in the case of Greece. As the pandemic crisis was an exogenous and symmetric crisis, EU member states decided to take supply and ...

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between the dimensions of dispersed – self‐management – leadership and a number of work environment dimensions conducive to creativity and productivity. Design/methodology/approach: ...

This study aims to take into account regional gross value added, to assess the per formance of this macroeconomic component for all thirteen Regions of Greece. We apply two diferent methods for the period between 2010 ...

The Invisible Hand of Divine Providence in Christian Theology leads mankind continuously with teleological aim. Adam Smith's Invisible Hand of Political Economy leads society to the highest level of prosperity, where the ...

This study empirically investigates the relationship between independent directors’ cash compensation and the likelihood of corporate fraud. Using data of 2542 Chinese firms and 17239 firm years from 2010 to 2017, the ...

This paper examines the determinants of profits of Greek banks operating abroad by developing an integrated model that includes a set of determinants informed by the literature on the profitability of both multinational ...

Value at risk is becoming increasingly popular as a management and regulatory tool. But before this acceptance goes much further, we need to assess its reliability under financial market conditions. Most VAR models deal ...

In this article, the authors begin by examining the current position of the Greek economy, its business environment and firms, noting a duality of extremes between family-owned firms and the subsidiaries of multinationals. ...

The optimal consent ration Copt of pollutant advertising in the environment can be determined as an equilibrium point in the trade off between the environmental cost, due to impact on man/land/economy and the economic cost ...

The environment is characterized as a public good. Public goods are goods that provide benefits for society as a whole or part of it, usually regardless of whether the individual people are willing to pay to have these ...

The Great Depression of the 1930s greatly affected political developments in Europe. Economic stagnation proved beneficial for far-right parties, which generally saw their influence increasing. Authoritarian regimes ...

This paper relates economic theorising and policy making in a context of people's changing behaviour, which makes economy to work in a different way. As economic theory is not adapting to these changes, it produces false ...