Over the last decade Slovenia has achieved clear and positive macro-economic results that have placed it among the most successful transitions countries. The basic indicators show that it has been integrating and catching up with European Union member states at an ever increasing pace. Despite...

We argue that monetary policies in euro-candidate countries should also aim at mitigating excessive instability of the key target and instrument variables of monetary policy during turbulent market periods. Our empirical tests show a significant degree of leptokurtosis, thus prevalence of...