Currency boards as a path towards the Eurozone: lessons from the Baltics
In: International economics and economic policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 45-57
ISSN: 1612-4812
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In: International economics and economic policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 45-57
ISSN: 1612-4812
In: International economics and economic policy, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 1-6
ISSN: 1612-4812
In: International economics and economic policy, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 3-6
ISSN: 1612-4812
In: German politics and society, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 71-81
ISSN: 1558-5441
Has economic unification succeeded? Assessments differ, depending on the criteria selected, and the benchmark used. In many areas, from productivity to infrastructure and housing, dramatic economic improvements are readily apparent. Yet daunting challenges remain: the speed of productivity convergence has slowed, unemployment remains high and net emigration continues. Looking forward, demographic and fiscal trends pose serious challenges. This paper begins with a brief look back at the experience since 1989 before turning to a discussion of current and future challenges.
In: International economics and economic policy, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 357-361
ISSN: 1612-4812
In: Labor Mobility and the World Economy, S. 231-243
In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 119-126
ISSN: 1467-6435
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Band 130, Heft 4, S. 747-759
ISSN: 0932-4569
In: NBER Working Paper No. w6457
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In: Working paper series 436
A large body of literature finds that exporters do not pass nominal exchange rate movements fully through to destination market prices over short time horizons. This imperfect passthrough has been widely attributed to strategic "pricing-to-market", whereby exporters deliberately accept changes in the home currency value of export prices in order to gain tor defend market share. We show that imperfect passthrough in the short run may also arise from simple menu costs. In contrast to strategic pricing, however, the long run passthrough is complete under menu costs - with associated implications for trade adjustment. Examining the cover prices of two maganzines, The Economist and Business Week, we find support for menu costs as a partial explanation of imperfect passthrough.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w4805
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In: Springer eBook Collection
While international capital flows are rising, the role of banks in the economy is changing and stock markets in OECD and eastern European countries play an increasing role for financing investment and innovation. Economic catching up of eastern Europe, European Monetary Union and problems of economic convergence are some of the issues discussed in this volume. Theoretical as well as empirical analyses of savings, private and public investment, and portfolio shifts are presented from a comparative perspective, covering Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US. Prudential supervision, banking issues and monetary integration are topics analyzed in theoretical and economic policy terms
During the transition from central planning to market economies now under way in Eastern Europe, output levels first collapsed by 40 to 50 percent in most countries, then staged a modest recovery in the last two years. Longer-term revival of growth requires a resumption of investment and thus, realistically, of domestic savings. To explore the determinants of household savings rates in transition economies, the authors studies matching household surveys for three Central European economies: Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland. They find that savings rates strongly increase with relative income, suggesting that increasing income inequality may play a role in determining savings rates. Savings rates are significantly higher for households that do not own their homes or that own few of the standard consumer durables - possibly because, with no retail credit or mortgage markets, households must save to purchase houses and durables. The influence of demographic factors broadly matches earlier findings for developing countries. Perhaps surprisingly, variables associated with the households position in the transition process - including either sector of employment (public or private) or form of employment - do not play a significant role in determining savings rates.
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