Economic fluctuations in Central and Eastern Europe: The facts

Applied Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 3279-3292

  Benczúr, Péter ^a,b   Rátfai, Attila ^b  

^a Magyar Nemzeti Bank   (Hungary)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INFLATION; MACROECONOMICS;

BULGARIA; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 77957039755     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802112380     Document Type: Article

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