Konvergencijos kriterijų įvertinimas Lietuvos ir Slovėnijos pavyzdžiu ; Evaluation of Convergence Criteria: the Example of Lithuania and Slovenia
In the Final Master's Degree Work there are evaluated Lithuania and Slovenia's inflations, government's annual budget deficit and gross debts, long-term government stock interest rate and national currency stability level conformity to the convergence criteria in 2000-2008. The first part of the paper explores theoretical aspects of inflation, government's annual budget deficit and gross debts, long-term government stock interest rate and participation of the countries in ERM II – conceptions of every of those criteria are presented, the reasons and outcomes of the appearance are being analysed, factors causing one or another occurrence are being examined, solving methods for the problems related to these macroeconomical indexes are being introduced. In the third part of the work Lithuania and Slovenia's inflation, long-term government's annual budget deficit and gross debts, long-term government stock interest rate and national currency stability level dynamics in 2000-2008 are researched and the factors and reasons that caused this kind of change are identified. Also, perspectives of Lithuania in the future to introduce the common EU currency – euro are being estimated and benefit of the Slovenia membership in the euro zone to the country is being discussed.