Ioannis Tirkides is the Economic Research Manager at Bank of Cyprus and President of the Cyprus Economics Society. With a long career in banking, he has held roles in economic analysis, strategic planning, and investment strategy
By Ioannis Tirkides
Erdogan won a third term as Turkey’s president after soundly defeating his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, in a run-off election on May 28, with 52.2 per cent of the ...
The International Monetary Fund, in its Spring World Economic Outlook, released last month, provides an assessment of the global economy over the medium term, revised forecasts, and discusses underlying risks ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
Economists have no great answers to the question of how wages should change with inflation, and certainly the automatic cost-of-living adjustment mechanism is highly controversial. But there ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
Surely the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature banks in the United States, and even the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS, have idiosyncratic elements that led ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
The war in Ukraine is a cataclysmic event in both economic and political terms. It signals the return of great power politics; it marks the weaponization of ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
In a previous article published last week, we examined the political landscape in Cyprus since 2011 against a backdrop of rising right-populism in advanced liberal democracies over the ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
In this article, we will examine the political landscape in Cyprus from 2011 onwards, against a backdrop of rising right-populism in advanced liberal democracies over the past couple ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
Central banks have been tightening for the most part of the year and will likely continue for a little longer into the early part of the new ...
By Ioannis Tirkides
Wars are highly uncertain events and never go as initially planned. This one in Ukraine is no exception. Russia was surprised by the resistance it met in ...