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The transition economies : a NATREX evaluation of research

Stein, Jerome L. - 2005

This paper applies the NATREX model of equilibrium exchange rates to evaluate several key studies of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) in general, with particular emphasis upon the Czech Republic and Hungary and with references to Poland and Bulgaria. On the basis of the NATREX...

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Determinants of house prices in Central and Eastern Europe

Égert, Balázs; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2007

This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...

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Growing together: Croatia and Latvia

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and other...

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Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

high-income households. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and the median … tariff rate over the tax rate to inequality and a set of control variables such as GDP per capita, openness, the degree of …

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The dynamic interplay of inequality and trust: an experimental study

Greiner, Ben; Ockenfels, Axel; Werner, Peter - 2007

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …

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Inequality and the import demand function

Adam, Antonis; Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2008

In this paper we build a model of trade in vertically differentiated products and find that income inequality can … inequality on the demand for imports is then assessed by examining panel data for 36 developing and developed countries for the … 1980-1997 period. We find significant evidence supporting our prediction that inequality has a large influence on the …

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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …

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