This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...

This paper surveys recent advances in the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM). In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, special attention is paid to exploring possible interrelations between different channels through which they may amplify or...

Anhand der Reihenfolgentheorie lassen sich die wichtigsten Bereiche der Politik identifizieren: institutionelle Reformen, fiskale und monetäre Stabilisierung, Reform der Finanzmärkte, Liberalisierung des Handels und des Kapitalverkehrs sowie die Privatisierung. Die Verschärfung von...