Macroeconomic Conditions and Import Surcharges in Selected Transition Economies /

Analysis on macroeconomic determinants of protection in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, and Poland, while subject to many caveats, suggests that appreciation of the real exchange rate was the main macroeconomic determinant of trade policy reversals in the 1990s. This suggests that balance o...

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मुख्य लेखक: Sorsa, Piritta
स्वरूप: पत्रिका
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
श्रृंखला:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/062
ऑनलाइन पहुंच:Full text available on IMF
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