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This study analyses the various macroeconomic opportunities and challenges created by the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the new member states. This essay focuses on the various macroeconomic opportunities and challenges created by the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the...
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inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the flexible countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
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part of the excess inflation registered in European catching-up countries, while other factors may be at play. The role of … growth (i.e. the difference between traded and non-traded sector productivity growth) on the dual inflation differential is … foster excess inflation in a catching-up country which cannot be accounted for by the process of real convergence. …
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inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
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The Balassa–Samuelson (B–S) hypothesis suggests that, in catching-up countries, inflation will be comparatively higher … part of the excess inflation observed in European catching-up countries. One feature of these studies is their neglect of … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is twice as large as that in “flexible” countries. We conclude that …
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monetary expansion and inflation under control. Lithuania undertook several currency reforms. After two year experience of the … the economy due to the sharp fall of the inflation. The currency board system has been proposed as a reasonable solution …. Central Banks of Estonia and Lithuania are operating under the currency board arrangement. The main objective was to keep …
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Schmukler and Serven investigate the patterns and determinants of the currency risk premium in two currency boards - Argentina and Hong Kong. Despite the presumed rigidity of currency boards, currency premium is almost always positive and at times very large. Its term structure is usually upward...
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Currency risk is one of the two components of the total interest rate differential. Hard pegs, such as currency boards, are meant to reduce or even eliminate currency risk, thus, reducing domestic interest rates. This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of the currency risk premium...
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The aim of this article is to show the threats connected with the exchange rate stabilization within the framework of ERM II and the analysis of the randomly selected EU countries – candidates for the Euro Zone. A two year stabilization of the exchange rate within the ERM II required prior to...
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to a product's tradability. For individual products, LOP deviations are affected by their own inflation rates and, to a … lesser extent, by aggregate inflation, output variations, and monetary variability. Interestingly, the trend behavior remains …
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