Deposit and Lending Interest Rate Liberalization Reforms Challenges, Pathways, and Policy Options -- Deposit and Lending Rates: Significance and Impacts of their Liberalization -- China’s Return on Capital and Real Interest Rates in Relation to Investment -- Household Savings Impact of...

This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production shocks - on key macroeconomic variables in ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by using near-VAR models and monthly data from the early 1990s to 2009. In contrast to...