The paper provides detailed empirical assessment of the role of non-residents in the development of Russian financial crisis in 1997-1998.It is established that non-residents behaved differently during the period of crisis and significantly contributed to the collapse of the state bonds...

Several transition countries have experienced strong real exchange rate appreciations.This paper tests the hypothesis that these appreciations reflect underlying productivity gains in the tradable sector.Using panel data over the period 1993 98, the results show clear evidence of...

This paper tests an endogeneity hypothesis of optimum currency area (OCA) criteria (Frankel and Rose, 1998) on a cross-section of OECD countries between 1990 and 1999.The findings indicate that convergence of business cycles relates to intra-industry trade, but has no direct relation between...

This study shows that due to herding behaviour and possible capital outflows, emerging market countries are vulnerable to multiple equilibria situations and currency crises.It uses a model by Jeanne (1997), where currency crises can be formed by multiple equilibria and self-fulfilling...

This study evaluates substitution of foreign currency balances in Estonia, a transition economy neighbouring countries participating in EMU.The focus is on substitution between dollar and euro balances in the three basic functions of money - unit of account, store of value and means of...

This is an empirical study of the real income convergence among the fifteen European Union members and the eleven transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe.Debates and research on EU enlargement tends to concentrate on normative issues, so empirical studies constitute a small share of...

Using a macroeconometric framework, this paper analyses relationships among money, barter and inflation in Russia during the transition period.Following the development of a theoretical framework that introduces barter in a standard small open economy macro model, we estimate our model using...

Using cointegration and error-correction models, this paper analyses the relative impacts of the monetary, labour and foreign sectors on Polish inflation from 1990 to 1999.Following the development of a theoretical framework, we use a structural system approach in which cointegration...

This study shows that due to herding behaviour and possible capital outflows, emerging market countries are vulnerable to multiple equilibria situations and currency crises. It uses a model by Jeanne (1997), where currency crises can be formed by multiple equilibria and self-fulfilling...

A model is presented where the question of bank regulation is developed under a principal-agent scenario in a regime where the regulator has limited resources and banks may have an incentive to act ultra virus the regulatory standards.If banks are subject to random audit, then compliance is...