The paper presents some results revealing the existence of the Balassa-Samuelson effect in Romania as well as some estimates of its impact on inflation, appreciation of the real exchange rate and rising competitiveness of the Romanian economy. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No....

The paper presents some results revealing the existence of the Balassa-Samuelson effect in Romania as well as some estimates of its impact on inflation, appreciation of the real exchange rate and rising competitiveness of the Romanian economy. * Study within the CEEX Programme Project No....

The paper presents some results revealing the existence of the Balassa-Samuelson effect in Romania as well as some estimates of its impact on inflation, appreciation of the real exchange rate and rising competitiveness of the Romanian economy. * Study published in PAIS III; Studiul nr. 2/2005;...

The paper presents some results revealing the existence of the Balassa-Samuelson effect in Romania as well as some estimates of its impact on inflation, appreciation of the real exchange rate and rising competitiveness of the Romanian economy. * Study within the CEEX Programme – Project No....

The author uses two models derived from the general model of stagflation in order to analyze long term trends of inflation-unemployment relationship. The first model assumes a simple linear correlation between unemployment and the growth rate of GDP, while inflation is a parabolic function of...

First of all, we present synthetically a few empirical results regarding changes in the inflation-unemployment relationship in West European countries during last three decades and in few Central and Eastern countries during the last fifteen years. Then, coming from a general standard model for...