Hellenic Observatory, LSE

03/09/2026

📢 New Research Paper available!

Professor Theodore Panagiotidis, Dr Paraskevi Tzika and Dr Georgios Voucharas have been working on the project Housing Affordability, Housing Investment, and the Residential Rental Market in Greece.

➡ In their research paper, published as GreeSE Paper 223, they introduce the Greek Housing Market Uncertainty (HMU) index, a monthly newspaper-based measure designed to capture housing-specific uncertainty. Using Local Projections and their state-dependent and time-varying extensions, they examine the dynamic effects of HMU shocks on key housing market variables. The results show that house prices respond negatively to housing uncertainty shocks, albeit with a lag, while residential loan growth also declines significantly in the short run.

📚 You can read the Paper here: https://tinyurl.com/ytadfbn6

➡️Read more about the Project: https://tinyurl.com/4mv69ntd

* The Project is part of the HO Research Calls Programme, funded by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and Dr Vassili G. Apostolopoulos II .

13/08/2026

⏳ One month left to apply!

The Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is accepting applications until 10 September.

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

12/08/2026

Greece has come a long way since the crisis, but has it fully recovered?

➡ Peter Sanfey and Dimitris Sourvanos, authors of the GreeSE paper Out of the Abyss: Has Greece Fully Recovered from the Crisis?, join Nick Malkoutzis to discuss Greece’s long road from economic crisis to stability.

🎧 Listen to the podcast

Greece has come a long way since the dark days of 2015, but has it fully recovered? In this episode of The Agora, Nick Malkoutzis speaks with Peter Sanfey and Dimitris Sourvanos, authors of the new Hellenic Observatory paper Out of the Abyss, to unpack Greece’s decade‑long journey from crisis to...

04/08/2026

Check out the latest GreeSE Paper!

📚 When Floors Fall: Decentralisation and the Inversion of the Wage Premium by Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis, Vassilis Monastiriotis, and Andreas Moustakas.

➡ Using two decades of survey evidence alongside the hand-coded universe of sectoral and firm-level agreements, the authors estimate wave-specific, covariate-adjusted wage gaps and
set the collective-bargaining estimates against the contracts that generated them. Their findings document a premium inversion: the firm-level wage gap, larger before the reform, collapses among small firms after it, while the sectoral gap rises and concentrates among lower-paid workers.

🔗 Read the Paper here:https://www.lse.ac.uk/asset-library/information/greese-no222.pdf

03/08/2026

Migration and Greek citizenship acquisition
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https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Population/Migration?fbclid=IwY2xjawTdPQZwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUNHN0UyWXpjOWNUTWs1M2ZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8ZlJFlvo9B5ecYVDxHFFZtyc-8SktPbqtvL30ifV-oVwllPYKx_aijrhkhg_aem_sTCG1ETHdhGWsJe7aBUNCQ

31/07/2026

Is Greece finally regaining its influence in international relations, or did it never really lose it?

➡ Dr Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory Research Affiliate, joined Prof James Ker-Lindsay for a conversation on how Greece's foreign policy has been shaped by defining moments in modern European history.

📺 Watch the interview

Is Greece finally regaining its influence in International Relation...

31/07/2026

📢 Applications are open!

Our Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, generously supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is now accepting applications!

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

📅 Application Deadline: 10 September

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

27/07/2026

Health outcomes: life expectancy, healthy life years, and mortality
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https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Public%20Services/Health/Health%20outcomes

20/07/2026

Housing: ownership, size, prices, rents
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https://www.greeceinnumbers.com/en-gb/Living%20Standards,%20Inequality,%20and%20Social%20Protection/Consumption%20and%20living%20standards?fbclid=IwY2xjawTK2M5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFMYUh1akpkUlNEa0RyNkkxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHoIuBWvHgKXH-ykzo09ojFEhX8HezerBRndUi6Tu54YTtEKcMEMZYChm0sho_aem_bDZ_E5CGvuzP4AdkkmQZZw

14/07/2026

🚨 2026 Call Now Open! 🚨

Our Research Innovation Programme on Greece & Cyprus, generously supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, is now accepting applications!

This year’s Call focuses on two key themes:

🔹 The class divide: privilege, institutional interlocks and the reproduction of social stratification
🔹 Being female: inclusion, inequality, participation and empowerment

We welcome innovative and policy relevant proposals that contribute to a deeper understanding of these contemporary challenges in Greece and Cyprus.

📅 Application Deadline: 10 September

👉 Visit our website to learn more about the research themes, application process, timeline and deliverables.

The LSE Centre for Research on Contemporary Greece & Cyprus - Hellenic Observatory invites applications for research project funding under its new Research Innovation Programme, supported by the A.G. Leventis Foundation.