Iceland and Latvia are small countries in Europe hit hard by the 2008 global economic and financial crisis. Both … collapsed while in Latvia the foreign owned banking system survived. After more than 5 years since the crisis erupted … economic and social progress, and it is maybe time to see what lessons can be learned, for Latvia and Iceland and perhaps also …

time Latvian entrepreneurs look for venture capital outside Latvia. The paper also pinpoints severe weaknesses in the …

on the Baltic States, especially Latvia. Thanks to the Single Market of the EU, workers in this country became able to … increase in wages due to a tightened labour market. Banks from Nordic countries came to operate in Latvia and competed for …. The Lehman shock dealt the Latvian economy its final blow. Latvia set up the introduction of the Euro in 2013 as an exit …

The paper evaluates competitiveness of Latvia's exporters from various aspects by using detailed trade data from … Comtrade. Competitiveness represented by the market share of Latvia's products in world trade was on the rising trend, growing … almost two times between 1999 and 2010. Such a dynamic improvement was mainly accounted for by intensive margin, as Latvia …

The aim of this study is to estimate the equilibrium REER of Latvia, which was done by using different methodologies … rate method. The results of all approaches used in this study indicate that the real exchange rate of Latvia, after …