Currency boards in the Baltic countries: What have we learned?

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-46

  Korhonen, Iikka ^a  

^a BANK OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; EXCHANGE RATE; FISCAL POLICY; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

BALTIC STATES;

EID: 0034105559     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631370050002657     Document Type: Article

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