Balassa-Samuelson Meets South Eastern Europe, the CIS and Turkey: A Close Encounter of the Third Kind?

This paper investigates the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for two acceding countries (Bulgaria and Romania), two accession countries (Croatia and Turkey) and two CIS countries (Russia and Ukraine). The paper first studies the basic assumptions of the Balassa-Samuelson effect using yearl...

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Main Author: Balázs Égert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università Carlo Cattaneo LIUC 2005-12-01
Series:The European Journal of Comparative Economics
Subjects:
CIS
Online Access:http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200502/182429792005020204.pdf