The Maastricht criteria measure the nominal convergence process of transformation countries to the European Union (resp. the EMU). The real convergence process, as opposed to the nominal, is much less scrutinized. Due to the high income elasticity of imports in Central and Eastern European...

Policies should be paired with objectives on which they have the most influence: such is the main idea of Mundell?s principle of effective market classification. This paper examines and discusses whether this principle is fulfilled in the Czech economy. The author deals with the difficulty of...