The paper examines economic and political challenges of joining the euro area in the case of Poland. After reviewing … the economic developments since the pre-accession period and assessing economic convergence with the euro area the paper … focuses on the political and institutional challenges of acceding to the euro zone. Special attention is given to the effect …

This paper uses data on currency options prices for the exchange rates of the three largest new EU member states Poland …, Czech Republic and Hungary vis-à-vis the euro and the US dollar to estimate the risk-neutral density (RND) functions and the …

, Hungary and Poland) during the process of euro adoption. Experiences of some old members (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) and … the econometric evidence speak in favour of strong loan increases in Hungary and Poland even though their magnitude may be … Czech Republic was more difficult to foresee, but given almost complete interest rate convergence with the euro area only …

Poland is obligated to adopt the euro after the fulfilment, inter alia, of the exchange rate criterion which requires … estimate real Polish zloty/euro equilibrium rate. Although the main goal of our analysis is to compute measures of current and …

CEE countries such as Poland started to experience a very high rate of financial development within a few years after … industry growth in Poland. This negative finding held for 1990-2001 as a whole and for two distinct sub-periods that differed …

in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active …

job opportunities in other rural economic sectors. In particular, in South eastern Poland the shut down of heavy industry … communeBa?tów (South-eastern Poland) in order to counteract these developments, local development associations and a regional …Ländliche Regionen in Polen weisen aufgrund eines Mangels an Arbeitsplätzen in nichtlandwirtschaftlichen …