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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...
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€”Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It identifies common features and common challenges, and discusses policies—both national and jointâ …
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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 …
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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...
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This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that Lithuania’s economy has entered a broadly favorable trajectory of …
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macroeconomic growth in Lithuania. The IMF report discusses the requirement of fiscal consolidation to fully rebuild fiscal space …
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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...
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studies (Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, and Romania). Our results of the panel data analysis indicate that supply …. In the case studies, we find a similar result for Lithuania and Montenegro, but the other three case studies point to the …
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