The recent admission of Slovakia into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) stands in sharp contrast with the … reasons: first, during the early phase of the transition process Hungary was way ahead of Slovakia, and second, the high level … Slovakia. This implies that in the absence of an elite consensus on continuing the reforms, the current success of Slovakia …

The paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the impact of corruption on bilateral trade using a data set comprising … OECD economies, new EU members and developing nations. Although the level of corruption of both the importing and exporting …

aged 30-34). This article, on an example of Slovakia, provides an analysis of both positive and negative impact of …

transmission mechanism in Slovakia. Subject to various sensitivity checks, we find that contractionary monetary policy shock has a … policy shock on Slovak prices is more powerful than that of the National Bank of Slovakia. Slovak central bank interest rate …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a 'bribe tax' and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency …, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the 'time tax' imposed on firms by red tape. When testing … individual firms appears to vary depending on overall institutional quality: in countries where corruption is more prevalent and …

Ähnlich wie in den anderen MOEL hatte auch in der Slowakei der Systemwechsel Anfang der 90er Jahre drastische Folgen … marktpolitischen Rahmenbedingungen der Slowakei. … sectors in Slovakia. For example, Slovakian consumers reacted to the abolition of consumer subsidies by drastically reducing …

, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We …