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, legal cash demand can be explained by transactional and saving motives (hoarding). We apply both direct calculation and an … hoarding and illegal cash demand) of several Central European and Western countries that have their own currency (did not … introduce euro). We find that transactional cash demand is strongly influenced by the level of improvement of the payment system …
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This paper presents new evidence on the dynamics of dollarization and euroization for twenty-five transition countries. Estimates of the amount of foreign currency in circulation (FCC) in transition countries are used to develop a new comprehensive dollarization index (CDI) and separate indices...
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Since the introduction of the euro in January 1999, exchange rate stability at the periphery of the euro area is …
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Since the beginning of the transition process from centrally planed to market economies, East European countries have experienced relatively high inflation and a market depreciation of their currency. Their monetary systems have gone through dramatic changes in the recent ten years, making the...
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The objective of this study is to examine recent developments in trade and FDI flows between the EU and the CEEC, trying to anticipate future consequences from the economic integration of the two blocks. Economic theory suggests that integration conveys positive effects upon welfare, due to the...
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Such an exceptional event as the creation of the EMU and the euro has not had happened never before. The most common … challenges concerning EMU and the euro are: fiscal policy making, monetary policy making, euro area being a non-optimal currency … what are the chances for the euro to preserve its influence and to combat inflation after accession of ten new member …
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, financial system soundness) for ERM2, each candidate should be able to shadow the euro, with sufficient flexibility around the …
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EMU enlargement not only depends on the individual state of convergence of the accession candidates, but also on their political situation. Therefore, we argue that institutional convergence, in particular monetary policy binding, is equally - if not more - important for successful monetary...
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