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Analyzing the Greek renewable energy sector: A Data Envelopment Analysis approach
(2012)This paper applies a bootstrapped Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) formulation aiming to evaluate the financial performance of the firms operating in the Greek renewable energy sector. With the use of financial ratios in a ... -
Budgetary trade-offs between defence, education and social spending in Greece
(2011)We examine the presence of budgetary trade-offs between defence spending and welfare expenditure in the case of Greece, the country with the highest defence burden in the European Union. The findings reported herein point ... -
Consumers' beliefs, attitudes and intentions towards genetically modified foods, based on the 'perceived safety vs. benefits' perspective
(2005)It has been repeatedly claimed that the application of genetic engineering in the field of agricultural and food production is both beneficial and advantageous. However, biotechnology is developing in an environment where ... -
Corruption and Economic Efficiency: Panel Data Evidence
(2010)This paper investigates empirically the effect of corruption on countries' economic efficiency. By using a sample of 79 countries for the time period 2000-2006 the paper applies DEA window analysis and econometric panel ... -
Decrease of Antibiotic Consumption in Children with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections after Implementation of an Intervention Program in Cyprus
(2012)To assess the impact of intervention on antibiotic misuse in children, parents' and pediatricians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) concerning antibiotic use were evaluated pre- and postintervention in Larnaca ... -
Disentangling different patterns of business cycle synchronicity in the EU regions
(2015)The present paper provides a comprehensive and consolidated analysis of the business cycle synchronicity between European regions and EU-14. Our study is conducted in three levels. First, we analyse regional business cycle ... -
The effect of electricity consumption from renewable sources on countries' economic growth levels: Evidence from advanced, emerging and developing economies
(2014)This paper uses a sample of 36 countries for the time period 1990-2011 in order to examine the relationship between countries' electricity consumption from renewable sources and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) levels. Several ... -
The effect of government expenditure on the environment: An empirical investigation
(2013)This paper examines the impact of government spending on the environment using a panel of 77 countries for the time period 1980-2000. We estimate both the direct and indirect effects of government spending on pollution. ... -
The effects of terrorism and war on the oil price-stock index relationship
(2013)The effects war and terrorism have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of four major stock markets - the American S&P500, the European DAX, CAC40 and FTSE100 - using non-linear BEKK-GARCH type models are ... -
European Regional Convergence Revisited: A Weighted Least Squares Approach
(2009)A plethora of past studies have concluded that unconditional beta-convergence is present in a broad sample of regions, implying that poor regions grow faster than rich ones. All these econometric studies tend to overlook ... -
The Feldstein-Horioka puzzle across EU members: Evidence from the ARDL bounds approach and panel data
(2008)This paper addresses the saving-investment (SI) correlation for the EU 15 member countries, using the ARDL approach and panel regressions. If we accept the Feldstein-Horioka [Feldstein, M. and C. Horioka, 1980, Domestic ... -
Fragmented Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization in the Greek Regions
(2014)This paper examines the degree of business cycle synchronicity among Greek regions and investigates the determinants of the business cycle co-movements of output associated with specific functional and spatial aspects of ... -
A modeling system for the evaluation of water resources management strategies in thessaly, greece
(2007)A modeling system was developed to evaluate the sustainability of water resources management strategies in the two major basins of Thessaly Region in Greece, namely the Pinios River and the Lake Karla basins. The intense ... -
Oil consumption and economic efficiency: A comparative analysis of advanced, developing and emerging economies
(2011)This paper investigates the economic efficiency-oil consumption relationship in 42 countries during the period 1986-2006. In a first stage by using DEA window analysis countries' economic efficiencies are obtained. In a ... -
Patterns of regional inequality in transition economies
(2001)This paper provides a comparative account of important aspects of regional development in transition economies, on the basis of regional statistics available for Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. More specifically it ... -
Smoking among adolescents in Northern Greece: a large cross-sectional study about risk and preventive factors
(2012)Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate epidemiological data about cigarette smoking in relation with risk and preventive factors among Greek adolescents. Methods: We randomly selected 10% of the whole ... -
Spatial variations of Greek manufacturing employment growth: The effects of specialization and international trade
(2010)This research analyses the effects of international trade, relative specialization and regional industrial structure on Greek regional employment growth over the 1995-2003 period. For this purpose, it employs trade-adjusted ...