Though inflation rates in EMS countries have significantly converged over the past decade, exchange-rate adjusted price levels have sharply diverged and continue to do so, albeit at a decreasing rate. This violation of purchasing power parity (PPP) may be viewed as a stylised fact in...

In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of the most recent members contrasts with that of the...

The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession countries, with a view to making policy recommendations regarding their accession to full European Monetary Union. We employ a dynamic OLS panel estimator to investigate the relative...