Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121875 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Policy Brief No. 4
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
This Policy Brief discusses the growth prospects of the Central and Eastern European (CEEC) region following the current economic crisis. It argues that the 'integration model of growth' of the CEEC region was characterised by a very high degree of external liberalisation. In one group of economies (mostly the Central European economies) the model turned out to be successful in that it did not generate strong structural imbalances (in trade and current accounts and in growing private sector savings-investment gaps) prior to the crisis. This was quite different in the other group (mostly the Baltic states and the countries in Southeastern Europe, SEE) where unsustainable imbalances developed in part traced back to historical weaknesses of the tradable sectors and in part to choices of exchange rate regimes, to the importance of remittances and to missing instruments to deal with cross-border financial market integration. The analysis suggests a number of factors which will characterise post-crisis condi-tions in CEECs (such as increased savings rates of the household sector, deleveraging, more restricted fiscal pol-icy space, etc.) and in external factors (lower growth in the most important Western European export markets, more difficult effective entry conditions to the EMU, etc.) and discusses an adjusted policy agenda.
Subjects: 
Finanzkrise
Konjunkturzyklus
Stabilisierungspolitik
Krisenfestigkeit
JEL: 
E20
E30
E32
E44
E60
G18
G28
Document Type: 
Research Report

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