Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Greece

Vasileios Vlachos is an Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics at the International Hellenic University (Department of Economic Sciences) and an Adjunct Lecturer in Business Administration at the Hellenic Open University.Aristidis Bitzenis is a Professor of Global Entrepreneurship; FDI at the University of Macedonia (Department of International and European Studies) and an Adjunct Lecturer in Business Administration at the Hellenic Open University.Bruno S. Sergi, Ph.D., has been teaching at Harvard University since 2011. At Harvard, he is also an Affiliate at the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School and an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

• Foreword; Apostolos Serletis Chapter 1. Determinants of and Obstacles to Economic Growth in Contemporary Greece; Vasileios Vlachos, Aristidis Bitzenis, and Bruno S. SergiPart 1 – Dynamics of the Greek economy Chapter 2. Competitive Position and Dynamics of the Greek Economy; Vasileios Vlachos and Aristidis Bitzenis Chapter 3. An Odyssey with a happy end? Growth challenges, successes and failures of Greece During COVID-19 Era; Konstantinos J. HazakisChapter 4. Forecasting Greek Real GDP Based on ARIMA Modeling; Chaido Dritsaki and Melina Dritsaki Chapter 5. Nominal or real convergence with the EMU criteria: The case of Greece; Aristidis Bitzenis and Pyrros PapadimitriouPart 2 – Policies, Institutions, and Markets Chapter 6. The Interactions between Governance Quality and Economic Development; Chara Vavoura, Dimitris Manolopoulos, and Ioannis Vavouras Chapter 7. Social Policy in Dribs and Drabs for the Greek Crisis; Dimitris Venieris Chapter 8. The Greek Labour Market during the Crisis: New Evidence on the Evolution of Wages, Employment and Unemployment; Evangelia Papapetrou and Pinelopi Tsalaporta Chapter 9. SME Productivity in Greece: The Role of Human Capital, ICT Adoption and Innovation; Ioannis Giotopoulos, Pelagia Kontaxaki, and Helen Louri Chapter 10. The impact of Competition Law on the Greek economy; Mark Clough QC and Efthymios Bourtzalas Part 3 – Characteristics and performance of selected industries Chapter 11. Greek Banking System during the Crisis and Beyond; Fotios Pasiouras and Minas-Polyvios Tsagkarakis Chapter 12. The Agri-Food Sector in Greece: Prospects and Possibilities; Stathis Klonaris Chapter 13. Energy Resources, Local Content Policies and Economic Growth: The case of Hydrocarbon Exploration in Greece; Stella TsaniChapter 14. The importance of tourism for the Greek Economy: Traits and development; Iordanis Katemliadis and Andreas PapatheodorouChapter 15. The Greek ICT Sector and its Contribution to Innovation and Economic Growth; Aggelos Tsakanikas, Petros Dimas, and Dimitrios Stamopoulos Chapter 16. Issues, Policies and Contribution of the Greek Transport Industry to Economic Growth; Tania Pantazi and Vasileios Vlachos