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Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts
Agorait grounded. Last week’s suggestion that Athens would have to find about 2 billion euros more... about 4 billion euros, or 2 percent of GDP, of measures and Samaras knows that convincing Greeks more... spending has been reduced to a drip feed. While there is still waste that can be addressed, finding 2
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How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A
PoliticsGreek Politicsand International Monetary Fund, who are reportedly demanding an extra 2 billion euros in cuts next year... weeks have claimed that the troika wants another 2 billion euros to be found in 2014 but Greek media... eurocrats and troika whisperers, however, talk of €2 billion for 2014 budget. #Greece — Juergen Baetz
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Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
Agoraconstraints and new credit transmission channels As graph 2 (below) underlines, the total volume..., the Bank of Greece and the Ministry of Finance.[2] The internal bad bank model for Greek institutions... Criticising NAMA’, August 27th 2009. [2] Kontogiannis, Dimitris, ‘Bad Bank Model Gains Ground in Greece
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Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?
Agorain 2010 Greek sovereign debt was primarily held by German[2], French, Italian, Swiss and Japanese... today reach approximately 380 billion euro and correspond to a debt-to-GDP ratio of 208 percent! 2... and Gulati, Mitu: ‘The Greek Debt Restructuring: An Autopsy’, July 2013. [2] Some inconvenient truths
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Greek banks' capital backstop and the funding gap: An uneasy relationship
Economyreducing capital needs by 2 billion - the clarification on the inclusion of the capital boost... of 2 billion with press reports noting that 1-1.5 billion could be raised by an anchor investor... or other capital enhancement measures over the next 2 or 3 years without using the backstop facility
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Shortcomings in healthcare seen at forefront of austerity impact in Greece
Society, with newly unemployed people aged 29–55 years covered for a maximum of 2 years. Rapidly increasing... of major depression, from 3•3 percent in 2008 to 8•2 percent in 2011, with economic hardship being a major... from 28•2 percent in 2007 to 30.4 percent in 2011, and a growing number receive inadequate nutrition
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Eurobank gears up for crucial but contentious capital increase
EconomyBankingafter the bank announced in mid-November plans to initiate a capital increase of circa 2 billion... of these shares stands at high levels (10 percent with a 2 percentage point step-up every year after 2014... increase north of 2 billion euros, most likely including the cancellation of pre-emptive rights
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Greek Tourism Association sees tourist arrivals rising to 19 mln for 2014
EconomyMacroeconomythis summer will be August 2, when 760 flights carrying 148,675 visitors are scheduled to land in Greece... visits from Russia and Ukraine, which account for 15 and 2 percent of total and contribute 13 and 2
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Is there (sustainable) growth in Greece?
Agorabetween both countries totalled 9.3 billion dollars in 2013, mostly in gas, oil and food products.[2... a work in progress and is puzzling policymakers as well as analysts. As graph 2 illustrates...). [2] Russia accounts for roughly 25 percent of Greece’s peach production and approximately 50 percent
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Newsletter 4 - 21/11/2014
percent incorporated in the medium-term fiscal strategy (MTFS) and the 2 percent in the draft budget... an increase in both the manufacturing as well as the mining and quarrying sectors by 1.8 and 2 percent... grew to 3.75 billion, a rise of 56.3 percent year on year. 2 Waiting for Godot in Greece
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