Athanasios Orphanides

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

— Athanasios Orphanides

The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.

— Athanasios Orphanides

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be…

— Athanasios Orphanides

Cyprus joined the E.U. in 2004 and immediately wanted to get into the euro area for the express purpose of completing, as…

— Athanasios Orphanides

Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close…

— Athanasios Orphanides

In my min,d there is arguably a greater risk of a default on the debt of a U.S. state than there is…

— Athanasios Orphanides

Watching the economies in various parts of the world, I believe that there is scope for improvement everywhere. There is some corruption…

— Athanasios Orphanides

Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet…

— Athanasios Orphanides

I would say that fears of the euro area breaking up are unfounded.

— Athanasios Orphanides

In order for the E.U. area to stay together, they needed to form a banking union, which meant they needed to have…

— Athanasios Orphanides