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[eng] Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Accession Countries . by Fabrizio Coricelli , Boštjan Jazbec and Igor Masten . This paper analyzes the link between the choice of exchange rate regime and inflationary performance in four EU accession countries : the Czech Republic , Hungary , Poland and...

Using empirical evidence from panel analysis of current account dynamics and of bilateral trade balances, the paper argues that the large German current account surplus during the 2000s can be explained by an increasing gap between productivity growth in manufacturing vis-à-vis services. Such a...

Reforms in Central–Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union have challenged the ability of established theories to account for such an extraordinary political, economic and social transformation. As it is too soon to analyse the outcomes of these reforms, Mario Blejer and Fabrizio...

Recent literature on the interactions between labor unions and monetary institutions features either a supply or a demand channel of monetary policy, but not both. This leads to two opposing views about the effects of central bank conservativeness. We evaluate the relative merits of those...

This paper surveys recent advances in empirical studies of the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM), with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, it explores possible interrelations between different...