What is behind the real appreciation of the accession countries' currencies?

Economic Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 383-403

  Lommatzsch, Kirsten ^a   Tober, Silke ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Real exchange rates; Relative productivity growth; Samuelson Balassa effect; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144381717     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2004.11.001     Document Type: Article

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