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Determinants of house prices in central and eastern Europe
Égert, Balázs ; Mihaljek, Dubravko
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 credit and demographic factors, have driven observed house prices in CEE.
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Foreign exchange interventions and interest rate policy in the Czech republic: Hand in glove?
Égert, Balázs ; Komárek, Luboš
This paper studies the impact of daily official foreign exchange interventions on the Czech koruna’s exchange rate vis-à-vis the euro (the German mark prior to 1999) from 1997 to 2002. Both the event study methodology, extended with official interest rate moves, and a variety of GARCH models reveal that central bank interventions, especially koruna purchases, seem to have been relatively ineffective from 1997 to mid-1998 compared to the size of the interventions.
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Comparison of Currency Board and Crawling Peg exchange rate arrangements in transition economies
Štolc, Michal ; Brůna, Karel (advisor) ; Čermáková, Daniela (referee)
This bachelor thesis discusses the issue of adopting appropriate exchange rate arrangement in transition economies of Eastern Europe during the 90's of 20th century. It more closely focuses on two of those arrangements, Currency Board and Crawling Peg. In the theoretical part, it describes the division of exchange rate regimes, problems of transition economies and specific features of Currency Board and Crawling Peg regimes. In the following analytical part, it compares the effects of adoption of one of these exchange rate regimes in Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary.
Funguje reforma?
Babetskii, Ian ; Campos, N. F.
A large econometric literature evaluates the effects of reform on economic performance. This paper tries to assess these efforts focusing on the experience of the transition economies.
Consumers' opinion of inflation bias due to quality improvements in transition in the Czech Republic
Hanousek, Jan ; Filer, Randall K.
Substantial understatement of the degree of quality improvement during transition, and, therefore, a substantial overstatement of inflation rates has resulted in a serious downward bias in estimates of the rate of growth of post-communist economies.
Measuring human capital mismatch in transition economies: evidence from the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovenia
Vinogradov, Viatcheslav ; Druska, Viliam
The paper attempts to quantify the evolution and the extent of human capital mismatch in the Czech Republic in 1991-1996 and in Slovenia in 1990 - 1999.
Assessing the problem of human capital mismatch in transition economies
Druska, Viliam ; Jeong, Byeongju ; Kejak, Michal ; Vinogradov, Viatcheslav
In transition economies, there may be a significant mismatch between the types of skills that workers possess and the types of skills that the new economy demands.
So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks: determinants and impact of occupational change during the Estonian transition
Campos, N. F. ; Dabušinskas, Aurelius
The transition from centrally planned to market economy entails a massive process of occupational change that has been largely neglected in the literature. This paper fills this void by providing a detailed description of this process and by investigating its determinants and consequences.

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