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After presenting the institutional construction during the pre-accession and post-accession to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the exchange rate mechanisms (ERM) in several countries and the convergence criteria, we go on with a brief analysis of the way the CEE countries cope with the...
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The five criteria of nominal convergence practically constitute the essential pillar for adoption of the euro currency. If Romania fails to meet all five criteria, it can not adopt the single currency. Since 2007, the year of integration in the Union, Romania attempts to solve problems of...
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their macroeconomic performance, measured by real GDP growth and CPI inflation. This paper constructs three novel inflation … not lead to superior growth and inflation rates in the short term …
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This paper studies the impact of exchange rate regimes on inflation, nominal money growth, real interest rates, and … growth performance. We find that, for non-industrial economies, "long" pegs (defined as those lasting for five or more … consecutive years) are associated with lower inflation than floats, but at the cost of an inferior growth performance. A similar …
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We study the relationship between exchange rate regimes and economic growth for a sample of 154 countries over the post … regimes are strongly associated with slower growth, as well as with greater output volatility. For industrial countries, on … the contrary, regimes do not appear to have any significant impact on growth. The results are robust to endogeneity …
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The results of purchasing power parity (PPP)-based comparisons of income across countries can be quite sensitive to the choice of index number formula. Tighter bounds on per capita income differentials can be constructed either by assuming homothetic preferences, or by estimating a demand...
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The paper investigates the role of real exchange rate misalignment on long-run growth for a set of ninety countries …-step System GMM panel growth models indicate that the coefficients for real exchange rate misalignment are positive for different …-run growth. The estimated coefficients are higher for developing and emerging countries. …
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of parallel markets, trade deficits and rapid decline in real GDP growth. …
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This Economic Insight presents new data on the relative prices of Canadian and U.S. products, focusing on various classes of goods and services. It also evaluates the extent to which changes in these relative prices correlate with movements in the nominal exchange rate. The comparative price...
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