Following their EU accession, the new member countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) must achieve sustainable price stability as one of the pre-conditions for joining the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and adopting the euro. This paper examines the distribution dynamics of inflation...

Mit dem zukünftigen Beitritt der bis dato noch nicht der europäischen Währungsunion beigetretenen mittel- und osteuropäischen EU-Mitglieder werden sich bestehenden Heterogenitäten innerhalb des europäischen Währungsraumes weiter verstärken. Insbesondere die zunehmenden...

This paper was commissioned by DG ECFIN from the EU Commission as part of the "EMU@10" project and is published in Hungarian language by the permission of the EU Commission. The original English language version of the paper is available at:...

The paper discusses the risks and challenges faced by the new members on the road to the euro and the strategies for and timing of euro adoption. We investigate the real-nominal convergence nexus from the perspective of euro area entry. We argue that the initial level of economic development as...