Inflation in the Baltic States and Other EU New Member States: Similarities, Differences and Adoption of the Euro
This paper examines the inflation experience of the EU new member states (NMS) since 2000, with particular focus on the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Apart from being a natural focus of interest for residents of these countries it appears that their recent inflation experience – accelerating inflation in all three, with Latvia and Estonia posting the two highest NMS inflation rates in 2005 – marks them out from the other NMS. Indeed Latvia is now the country with the highest inflation rate in all of the EU. At the same time the actual levels of inflation are different across the three Baltic countries. So the central questions addressed in the paper concern the reasons behind the acceleration of inflation in the Baltic states when such an acceleration has not been observed in the other NMS and how to reconcile the ‘common Baltic acceleration’ with the observation that levels of inflation in the three countries remain different.
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2006-06
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Authors: | Vanags, Alf ; Hansen, Morten |
Institutions: | Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS) |
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Extent: | application/pdf |
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Series: | SSE Riga/BICEPS Occasional Papers. - ISSN 1691-3620. |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Notes: | Number 1 23 pages |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878259
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