Price dynamics in Central and Eastern European EU accession countries

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 42-78

  Backé, Peter ^a   Fidrmuc, Jarko ^b,c   Reininger, Thomas ^b   Schardax, Franz ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c Capital Invest   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balassa Samuelson effect; Core inflation; EU enlargement; Price liberalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542539244     PISSN: 1540496X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1540496x.2003.11052541     Document Type: Review

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