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Sectoral composition of foreign direct investment and external vulnerability in Eastern Europe
Kinoshita, Yuko - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425660
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Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment and External Vulnerability in Eastern Europe
Kinoshita, Yuko - 2011
. We also find that the countries with large market size, good infrastructure, greater trade integration, and educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399355
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Macroprudential Policies and Housing Price : A New Database and Empirical Evidence for Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
Vandenbussche, Jerome - 2012
Several countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe used a rich set of prudential instruments in response to last decade’s credit and housing boom and bust cycles. We collect detailed information on these policy measures in a comprehensive database covering 16 countries at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395481
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Macroprudential policies in Southeastern Europe
Dimova, Dilyana; Kongsamut, Piyabha; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - 2016
This paper presents a detailed account of the rich set of macroprudential measures taken in four Southeastern European countries-Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Serbia-during their synchronized boom and bust cycles in 2003-12, and assesses their effectiveness. We find that only strong measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432410
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Being poor, feeling poorer : inequality, poverty and poverty perceptions in the Western Balkans
Koczan, Zsoka - 2016
Emerging Europe has undergone a major economic transformation over the past 25 years. Most countries experienced initial drops in output during transition, followed by recovery in the second half of the 1990s. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has however been particularly uneven....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434920
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Does Supply or Demand Drive the Credit Cycle? Evidence from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
2015 - Everaert, Greetje ; Che, Natasha Xingyuan; Geng, Nan ; Gruss, Bertrand ; Impavido, Gregorio ; Lu, Yinqiu ; Saborowski, Christian ; Vandenbussche, J�r�me ; Zeng, Li ed
Countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) experienced a credit boom-bust cycle in the last decade. This paper analyzes the roles of demand and supply factors in explaining this credit cycle. Our analysis first focuses on a large sample of bank-level data on credit growth for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411925
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Financial Sector Evolution in the Central European Economies : Challenges in Supporting Macroeconomic Stability and Sustainable Growth
Wagner, Nancy L. - 2001
This paper takes stock of the current state of development of the financial systems in five Central European transition economies (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia) that are also leading EU accession candidates. It presents both a progress report and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399949
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Fiscal Indulgence in Central Europe : Loss of the External Anchor
Kopits, George - 2004
In recent years, fiscal performance in Central Europe has steadily deteriorated, in contrast to the improvement in the Baltics. This paper explores the determinants of such differences among countries slated for EU accession. Regression estimates suggest that economic and institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404061
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Interest Rate Pass-Through in Romania and Other Central European Economies
Tieman, Alexander F. - 2004
Interest rate pass-through from policy interest rates to market rates and inflation has been hypothesized to play a lesser role in Romania than in other Central European transition economies. This paper tests this hypothesis and concludes that it cannot be supported by the data. Hence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404153
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Scaling up quality infrastructure investment in South Asia
Bizimana, Olivier; Jaramillo Echeverri, Laura; Thomas, Saji - 2021
South Asia needs large infrastructure investments to achieve its development goals, and public investment can also … public infrastructure was a key driver of productivity growth in South Asia. Going forward, higher public infrastructure … reap the most benefits from higher infrastructure investment, South Asian countries need to manage fiscal risks carefully …
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