We investigate the inflation process in Poland during the economic transition period by applying Markov Switching Models to explain the inflation generating process. The analysis is limited to the period between March 1992 and October 2005, a period of relatively high inflation The application...

We investigate inflation in Poland in the period of economic transition by examining the potential application of Markov Switching Models to model the inflation generating process in Poland. The time horizon of analysis was limited to the period between March 1992 and October 2005 defined as the...

The Great Recession has been characterised by the two stylized facts: the buildup of leverage in the household sector in the period preceding the recession and a protracted economic recovery that followed. We attempt to explain these two facts as an information friction, whereby agents are...