Since the mid-2000s, internal and external imbalances have increased in many EU countries. This contributed to the debate over whether government budget deficits affect current account deficits, known as twin deficits hypothesis. It implies that public debt is actually a burden for future...

In this paper I test the validity of the capital‐enhanced equilibrium exchange rate (CHEER) approach for the four Visegrad new EU countries. Recent unit root and cointegration techniques with structural breaks in the data have been used. The CHEER approach is empirically validated only for the...

In this paper, we investigate the monetary transmission mechanism through interest rate and real effective exchange rate channels, for five South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania and Turkey. Recent unit root and cointegration techniques in the presence of...

In the present paper we assess the impact of the Eurozone’s economic policies on specific South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. Since these countries are connected to the EU or the Eurozone and economic interdependence among...

This paper investigates the validity of the CHEER model for eight, highly competitive, East Asian countries. For a sample that consists of monthly observations, unit root and cointegration techniques in the presence of structural shifts in the data have been employed. The evidence shows that the...

This paper examines eight suggested solutions to the Greek debt crisis and six political and institutional reforms in order to achieve a single objective: eliminate deviations from the EU benchmark and thus transform the country into a modern EU state. In the absence of a national political...