The objective of the paper is to investigate the stability properties of the European Money Demand function by means of multivariate time series modelling for the time period 1980 -2010 using aggregated data of EU17, European Union member states which use the euro as their currency. A...

Use of an OECD basis of growth determinant to select the most appropriate model for explaining GDP per capita levels. The data basis was analysed by standard econometric techniques but the "best" models were selected by Bayrsian techniques using the Metropol-lis *Hastings methodGiven the high...

The positive impacts of an increasing share of renewable energy (RE) on the mitigation of climate change as well as on the decrease of the dependence of energy imports are indisputable. However, such are currently still the additional costs of heat and electricity generation from most renewable...

The unemployment rates of then-communist Central European countries were unnaturally low because of manipulated data and latent, "intra-firm" unemployment. As the transition of these states is now more than two decades ago, the question of how the NAIRU evolved since then arises. Because of the...

This paper investigates the factors underlying the dispersion in RULC growth rates across euro area countries. It addresses three main questions. First, how big are RULC growth differentials in EMU by historical perspective? Second, what are the reasons underlying such differentials and why does...

This paper applies the Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) approach to empirically study the determinants of economic growth in a panel data set that focuses on Central and Eastern European transition economies in the period 1995-2008. Although economic growth is used as a key...

This paper uses the IMF’s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model (GIMF) to assess the impact of fiscal consolidation on the Czech economy. Its contribution is threefold. First, it provides estimates of dynamic fiscal multipliers for a variety of fiscal instruments (tax and expenditure),...

If the central banks of transition countries followed the certain monetary policy rules prior to the current world economic crisis, do they continue to keep them when situation changed? The generalized method of moments and Johansen test. In this article it is investigated the influence of the...

Money illusion is "frequently invoked and frequently resisted" by economists. Resisted as it contradicts the maximizing paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the behavior of agents. This paper rationalizes...

This study addresses price convergence in two cities in Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara) using the annual data over the three quarters of the 20th century (1922–1998), characterized by prevailing high inflation rates for most of the period. In contrast to the rest of the literature addressing...