This book, based upon a large-scale research project, examines alternative types of exchange rate policies being pursued and the changing nature of exchange rate policy during the transition process in four countries, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic. The book brings together a...

This article examines the contribution of exchange rate policy to output growth in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis identifies two major channels through which the exchange rate affects output. The first is the direct effect which operates on output through...

The aim of this paper is to study the main macroeconomic, financial and structural characteristics that affected current account developments in the member-states of the euro area over the period 1980–2008. The model is based on the intertemporal consumption smoothing approach according to...

This paper examines the effects of both anticipated and unanticipated monetary disturbances in a small open economy by taking into consideration adjustments in the banks' portfolio of earning assets. It primarily focuses on the adjustment of credit market interest rates as well as on that of the...

This paper examines asymmetries in the dynamic relationship between foreign exchange fluctuations and stock market volatility in Pacific basin countries. The methodology is based on a dynamic covariance modelling that accounts for leverage effects and the asymmetric impact of currency...