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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
2009
Social Science Research Network
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the monetary overinvestment theories of Wicksell and Hayek in order to trace cyclical deviations of real exchange rates from the productivity-driven equilibrium path. Panel estimations for the period from
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1505298
fatcat:aommct6e7zgfjdw2765xi7q7tq