A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that …

In this paper we address some of the issues resulting from Poland's will to join the Economic and Monetary Union. Our …-Samuelson effect for Poland are provided. …

Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates …

the rate of technical change for Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. Although the pooling eliminated … Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania and somewhat lower, but still respectable (3 - 5 per cent) in the case of Poland and Hungary. It … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Next, we investigate in what extent regional per capita income gaps to the European …This paper starts by describing the distribution of GVA, employment and productivity growth across the regions of … average can be attributed to differences in productivity per worker. Finally, we extend Esteban’s (2000) shift-share analysis …

Differences in growth, productivity and inflation levels are going to be a prominent feature of the future of EMU, as … open economy models, an endogenous discount rate is used. The results imply that faster productivity growth in the traded …

European new EU member states. Based on a Balassa-Samuelson model of productivity driven inflation, it finds a high probability …