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Competitiveness in the Baltics in the Run-Up to EU Accession
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2003
This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since the start of the transition process. In the earlier years of transition, price liberalization,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591344
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Unemployment and Structural Unemployment in the Baltics
Ebeke, Christian; Everaert, Greetje - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
While the unemployment rate in the Baltics has fallen sharply from its crisis-peaks, it remains close to double digits. This paper estimates the structural component of the jobless rate in the three Baltic countries and analyzes its causes. Our main findings are that the current still elevated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959461
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Baltic Cluster Report: 2014 Cluster Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Baltic Countries
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
€”Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It identifies common features and common challenges, and discusses policies—both national and jointâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244182
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Republic of Lithuania: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper focuses on sustainability of public finances and low inflation in Lithuania. Lithuania aims … to adopt the euro in 2015. Over the medium term, inflation in Lithuania will likely run somewhat higher than in the euro … favorable, and Lithuania has demonstrated the ability to deliver adjustment when needed without recourse to exchange rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244839
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Baltic Cluster Report: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This Selected Issues paper focuses on the Baltic model, Baltic–Nordic links, and convergence. The Baltic countries form a distinct group within a tightly integrated Nordic–Baltic region. They are following similar approaches to economic policy, broadly in line with those of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244869
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Republic of Lithuania: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Lithuania
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Lithuania’s economy has entered a broadly favorable trajectory of healthy and balanced growth, but income convergence with Western Europe has a long way to go. With inflation at historical lows and well-advanced repair of public finances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244988
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Republic of Lithuania: 2013 Article IV Consultation; Staff Report, Information Annex, Public Information Notice, Statement by the Executive Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
macroeconomic growth in Lithuania. The IMF report discusses the requirement of fiscal consolidation to fully rebuild fiscal space …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245185
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Agricultural Credit in the Baltics, Russia, and Other States of the Former Soviet Union
Sobolev, Yuri Vladimirovich; Lahiri, Ashok - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264258
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Discretion with Rules? Lessons from the Currency Board Arrangement in Lithuania
Camard, Wayne W. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826700
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Baltic and Icelandic Experiences of Capital Flows and Capital Flow Measures
Groenn, Audun; Fredholm, Maria Wallin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The aim of this empirical study is to describe and provide analysis on the experience of managing capital flows in Iceland and the Baltic countries. During the build-up of the crisis, there were shortcomings in macroeconomic policies and in the policy mix, as well as in financial supervision in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790271