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Economic Transformation and Real Exchange Rates in the 2000s: The Balassa-Samuelson Connection

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Laszlo Halpern (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Charles Wyplosz (Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva)

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Abstract

This paper discusses the relevance of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for the transition economies since 1990. Their experience is consistent with this hypothesis and the further implications of this are discussed especially in regard to EMU targets for exchange rate stability and inflation.

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Paper provided by UNECE in its series ECE Discussion Papers Series with number 2001_1.

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Length: 15 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2001
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Publication status: Published in UNECE Discussion Paper Series, No. 2001_1
Handle: RePEc:ece:dispap:2001_1

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Keywords: EU enlargement; EU new member states; euro; transition economies; Balassa-Samuelson;

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F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
P27 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Performance and Prospects
O52 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

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