Between 2004 and 2008 low-interest foreign currency based loans, and above all household loans, became more and more popular in Central European countries like Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Baltic countries in an environment of high and volatile inflation but stabilising and in some...

Purpose – In the European Union only a few countries have remained outside the eurozone. Among these countries with independent monetary policies few pursue a floating exchange rate regime: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania (IMF, 2013). The purpose of the paper is to examine...

Purpose -In the European Union only a few countries have remained outside the eurozone. Among these countries with independent monetary policies few pursue a floating exchange rate regime: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania (IMF, 2013). The purpose of the paper is to examine whether...