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  1. Bank of Greece sees potential for recovery, urges calm in negotiations
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . Following the better-than-expected GDP outcome in the 9-month period, BoG upgraded its macro estimates... than expected dampening effect on the economy. An additional risk involves the existing gaps... by 11.3 percent, which corresponds to more than 100,000 NPls, mainly focusing on long-term solutions

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  2. Newsletter 104 - 27/01/2017

    Newsletters

    be. Tsakalotos claimed that all the participants acknowledged that the Greek economy performed better than... to 101.8 percent in Q1 2016. In addition, the household debt over assets ratio more than doubled, from... published by the Finance Ministry. The overperformance reflects higher-than-expected revenues (up by 1.88

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  3. Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
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    Agora

    of road. The programme has less than 18 months to run, Greece cannot fund itself beyond the summer... (in terms of his and SYRIZA’s future) than hanging on until the last minute and signing up to a deal he... Tsipras and SYRIZA with a much more respectable legacy than the one they are destined

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  4. Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017

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    some of the measures that the IMF is demanding. risk of committing the coalition to more than... 4 billion euros, in contingent measures to be legislated now. This probably more than the coalition... percent. The number of bank employees in the Greek market has dropped by 29 percent, or more than

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  5. Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
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    EconomyProgramme

    . The IMF has repeatedly stressed that more than half of Greek wage earners are exempt from paying... or two children respectively. It remained unchanged for families with more than 3 children... to 2,100 euros (for families with more than three children. It is worth noting that those tax-free

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  6. Newsletter 108 - 24/02/2017

    Newsletters

    than tripled, peaking at 27.5 percent in 2013, while it decreased by more than 2.5 percentage points..., respectively, coupled with a slightly higher goods deficit by 35 million, which more than offset... to 46.5 percent of new hirings from 41.8 percent in December. In addition, more than 41 and 17 percent

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  7. Newsletter 110 - 10/03/2017

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    from just 31 million last year, which more than offset the deterioration in the fiscal outcome... continue to hold the lion’s share, making up 80 percent of car sales, while more than 57 percent... of car sales, while more than 57 percent are registered in the Attica prefecture. Following the strong

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  8. Multiple potential benefits await Greece if it can clinch QE eligibility
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    EconomyFeatures

    billion euros. It will increase to almost 4.2 billion between mid-July and April 2018 and to more than 5... is delayed significantly, the impact on bond yields would be lower than initially estimated and would... since last May, having sold more than 10 billion euros of EFSF bonds and recording trading gains

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  9. From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
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    Agora

    of primary surplus targets that would be lower than the 3.5 percent of GDP originally envisioned and for less than the 10 years agreed in the fraught summer of 2015. Armed with these gains... people, but also a much more positive legacy for Tsipras and SYRIZA to take with them than the last

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  10. Greece sees highest tax wedge increase among OECD countries in 2016
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    Economy

    The tax wedge in Greece remained above the OECD average in 2016, when it increased by more than 1... above where it was by 2015. The tax wedge stood at 40.2 percent in Greece in 2016, more than 4 pp higher than the OECD average figure, which edged down 0.1 pp to 36 percent. The deviation of the Greek

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