Impact of Exchange Rate Regimes and Euro Area Membership on the Economic Growth of the New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe

Authors

  • Ivan Krumov Todorov South-West University "Neofit Rilski"
  • Stoyan Tanchev, Dr Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”
  • Kalina Durova, Dr Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”
  • Petar Yurukov

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5137380

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the effects of exchange rate arrangements and euro area (EA) membership on the economic growth of ten new member states (NMS) from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 – the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Croatia is excluded from the analysis since it became a EU member relatively late - in 2013. A vector autoregression (VAR) of annual data for the period 2007-2017 is employed. The empirical results provide statistical evidence that flexible exchange rates and EA membership favor the economic growth of the NMS from CEE.

Author Biographies

Stoyan Tanchev, Dr, Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”

Chief Assistant Professor, PhD; Department of Finance and Accounting

Kalina Durova, Dr, Southwest University “Neofit Rilski”

Assistant Professor, PhD; Department of Finance and Accounting

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Published

2021-06-30

How to Cite

Todorov, I. K., Tanchev, S., Durova, K., & Yurukov, P. (2021). Impact of Exchange Rate Regimes and Euro Area Membership on the Economic Growth of the New Member States from Central and Eastern Europe. International Journal of Contemporary Economics and Administrative Sciences, 11(1), 216–246. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5137380

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