This paper investigates the effectiveness of the interest rate channel in three small open economies with rigid exchange rate regimes in South East Europe – Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia – during the period 2000–2010. Specifically, we examine the size and speed of adjustment of bank...

This paper investigates the relationship between central bank independence (CBI) and inflation by using two different CBI measures in seventeen transition economies from Central and Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2009. It employs a fixed effects panel data model, which incorporates several control...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the association between central bank independence (CBI) and inflation for 17 Central and Eastern European economies from 1990 to 2009. We employ a dynamic panel data model estimated with a "system" generalized method of moments, which incorporates...

The paper provides time-varying NAIRU estimates for Macedonian economy for the period 1998-2012, which were obtained using Ball and Mankiw (2002) approach and additionally supplemented with iterative procedure proposed by Ball (2009). The results revealed that the Macedonian NAIRU has the...

This paper measures the effects of certain customs and administrative procedures on trade between the countries of South-Eastern Europe in the period 2008-2012. Following OECD methodology, we employ the augmented gravity model. The empirical results suggest that the number of days spent at the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the financial integration of the South Eastern Europe (SEE) stock markets. We use a multinomial logistic regression to analyze how persistence, asset class and volatility effects are related with negative coexceedances in SEE markets. We find evidence in favor...

Macedonia’s economy is under-performing. The unemployment rate is constantly one of the largest in Europe; and, almost one third of the population lives below the poverty line. Reforms have been put in place, but they have not done enough to solve the key problems. The present paper applies the...