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Industrial growth in Greece between the wars: A new perspective

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This article challenges the established orthodoxy concerning industrial growth in Greece during the interwar period. A Paasche quantity index weighted by value-added shares for 1938 is constructed and then compared to earlier estimates. The new index indicates rapid growth though not free of interruptions in the 1920s, an early and robust recovery from the Great Depression and high rates of growth in the 1930s. By contrast with earlier estimates which imply that Greece escaped the Great Depression unscathed, the new index shows that industrial output plummeted after 1929. These findings, backed up by alternative tests, suggest that the new index gives the best possible assessment of industrial production in Greece in the interwar period. The article also explores mechanisms that stimulated industrial activity and provoked cyclical collapses of industrial output in Greece in the interwar period.

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  • Christodoulaki, Olga, 2001. "Industrial growth in Greece between the wars: A new perspective," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(1), pages 61-89, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ereveh:v:5:y:2001:i:01:p:61-89_00
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    1. Andreas Kakridis, 2021. "Nobody’s child: the Bank of Greece in the interwar years," Working Papers 290, Bank of Greece.
    2. Matthias Morys & Martin Ivanov, 2015. "The emergence of a European region: business cycles in South-East Europe from political independence to World War II," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 19(4), pages 382-411.
    3. Michael Kopsidis, 2012. "Missed Opportunity or Inevitable Failure? The Search for Industrialization in Southeast Europe 1870-1940," Working Papers 0019, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).

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