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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic
Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010
Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...
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Inflation targeting and monetary integration in European emerging market economies
Felix Hammermann - 2008
This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429025
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Firm-level exchange rate exposure in the Eurozone
Hutson, Elaine; O'Driscoll, Anthony
Using a sample of 1154 European firms from 11 countries, we show that firm-levelexchange exposure for Eurozone and non-Eurozone … European firms has increased sincethe introduction of the euro, but this rise was smaller for Eurozone than non … Eurozone countries, so the advent of the euroappears to have been associated with a shift in exchange risk from systematic to …
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Nominal and Real Convergence in Estonia: The Balassa-Samuelson (dis)connection
Égert, Balázs - 2003
The objective of the paper is to analyse the nominal and real convergence process in Estonia drawing on the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) framework. A 15-sectoral breakdown for GDP and a 5-digit level CPI data disaggregation with over 260 items is used for the period 1993:Q1 to 2002:Q1 to show that...
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The Balassa-Samuelson effect in Central and Eastern Europe: Myth or reality?
Égert, Balázs; Drine, Imed; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; … - 2002
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effect in 9 CEECs . Using panel cointegration techniques, we find strong empirical evidence in favour of what we call the internal transmission mechanism since productivity growth in the open sector is found to bring about non-tradable inflation. However,...
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Equilibrium Exchange Rates in Transition Economies: Taking Stock of the Issues
Égert, Balázs; Halpern, László; MacDonald, Ronald - 2005
In this paper we present an overview of a number of issues relating to the equilibrium exchange rates of transition economies of the former soviet bloc. In particular, we present a critical overview of the various methods available for calculating equilibrium exchange rates and discuss how...
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Fiscal expansions under flexible exchange rates and in a monetary union: the interplay of biased preferences and pricing-to-market
Pitterle, Ingo - 2005
Wechselkurssystem sowie in einer Währungsunion untersucht. Im Anschluss an eine getrennte Analyse der beiden Wechselkursssysteme wird … fiskalpolitischen Expansion kommt - eine Währungsunion gegenüber einem flexiblen Wechselkurssystem bevorzugen, unabhängig davon, ob die …-Switching- und Terms-of-Trade-Effekte zurückführen, die ausschließlich bei einem flexiblen Wechselkurssystem auftreten. Aufgrund der …
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Exchange Rate Regime and Financing Policies of the Corporate Sector in Small Open Economies.
Berrospide, Jose M. - 2007
This dissertation studies the relationship between exchange rate regimes and financing decisions of corporations in small open economies with access to international capital markets.The first essay develops a model of the choice between local and foreign currency debt by capital-constrained...
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Modeling International Asset Markets
Alquist, Ron - 2008
The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are less accurate in the mean-squared error sense than no-change forecasts....
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