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Back from the Peak, Growth in Transition Countries Returns to Standard Rate of Catching-up
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005
in unit labour costs. Despite this (and despite growth being weaker than expected in the euro zone), NMS foreign trade … continues to perform excellently. Foreign trade has been even more instrumental in generating GDP growth in the first quarter of … 2005 than in the past. It should be pointed out, however, that NMS trade with the 'old' EU has grown at a relatively slower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492721
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Strong Growth, Driven by Exports in the NMS and by Consumption in the Future EU Members
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2006
growth in Ukraine has been spectacular, reflecting weak investment demand and the deterioration of foreign trade. By and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492722
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Accelerating GDP Growth, Improved Prospects for European Integration
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005
outstanding feature of last year's economic developments was a boost in foreign trade (or of intra-EU dispatches and arrivals in … their aggregate trade balance slightly deteriorated (in fact foreign trade contributed positively to GDP growth in Poland … and 72% of imports represent intra-EU trade. Given the high (and rising) export surpluses of Russia and Ukraine - in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649596
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Accelerating GDP Growth, Improved Prospects for European Integration
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - 2005
outstanding feature of last year's economic developments was a boost in foreign trade (or of intra-EU dispatches and arrivals in … their aggregate trade balance slightly deteriorated (in fact foreign trade contributed positively to GDP growth in Poland … and 72% of imports represent intra-EU trade. Given the high (and rising) export surpluses of Russia and Ukraine - in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100050
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Back from the Peak, Growth in Transition Countries Returns to Standard Rate of Catching-up
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - 2005
in unit labour costs. Despite this (and despite growth being weaker than expected in the euro zone), NMS foreign trade … continues to perform excellently. Foreign trade has been even more instrumental in generating GDP growth in the first quarter of … 2005 than in the past. It should be pointed out, however, that NMS trade with the 'old' EU has grown at a relatively slower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100056
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Strong Growth, Driven by Exports in the NMS and by Consumption in the Future EU Members
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - 2006
growth in Ukraine has been spectacular, reflecting weak investment demand and the deterioration of foreign trade. By and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100061
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The Politics of Monetary Policy
Alesina, Alberto; Stella, Andrea - In: Handbook of Monetary Economics
In this paper we critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, with an eye on the questions raised by the recent financial crisis. We begin with a discussion of rules versus discretion. We then examine the issue of the central bank's independence (CBI) both in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002650
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Wanting Robustness in Macroeconomics
Hansen, Lars Peter; Sargent, Thomas J. - In: Handbook of Monetary Economics
Robust control theory is a tool for assessing decision rules when a decision maker distrusts either the specification of transition laws or the distribution of hidden state variables or both. Specification doubts inspire the decision maker to want a decision rule to work well for a [empty set]...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002651
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Implementation of Monetary Policy: How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?
Friedman, Benjamin M.; Kuttner, Kenneth N. - In: Handbook of Monetary Economics
Central banks no longer set the short-term interest rates that they use for monetary policy purposes by manipulating the supply of banking system reserves, as in conventional economics textbooks; this process normally involves little or no variation in the supply of central bank liabilities. In...
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The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes
Ball, Laurence - In: Handbook of Monetary Economics
evidence of benefits in emerging economies; (2) Europe's monetary union has increased intra-European trade and capital flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002653