After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and remained stable during recent years. This may indicate that the transformation process has come to an end with regard to savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now...

Zum 1. Mai 2004 werden zehn weitere Volkswirtschaften der Europäischen Union beitreten. In den Verträgen ist die künftige Einführung des Euro vorgesehen, wenngleich hier kein genauer Terminplan besteht. Acht der Beitrittsländer liegen in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Estland, Lettland, Litauen,...

After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both country...

The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies. We use panel data over the period 1989-1998 and estimate a fixed-effects model. In Central Eastern European Countries, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the...