Exchange Rate Regime-Related Risks in Transition Countries

The exchange rate is one of the key prices in an
economy. By directly affecting the behaviour and the
decision making of economic agents such as
households, entrepreneurs, governments, banks and
other financial institutions it has a crucial
impact on many important macroeconomic variables.
The exchange rate can function as a vital anchor and
a stabilising force. However, particularly against
the backdrop of increasingly globalised capital
flows, each exchange rate regime holds its specific
immanent risks. The present dissertation delves in
three chapters into two particular exchange rate
regime related risk aspects - the peril of a
currency crisis and the possibility of an inflation
acceleration in the wake of the euro adoption hotly
debated in most of the euro candidate countries.

Autorentext
After finishing the Ph.D. coursework at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005 Tomas Slacik joined as an economist the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank) in Vienna where he has been working ever since. In 2008 he earned his Ph.D. from Vienna University.

Klappentext
The exchange rate is one of the key prices in an economy. By directly affecting the behaviour and the decision making of economic agents such as households, entrepreneurs, governments, banks and other financial institutions it has a crucial impact on many important macroeconomic variables. The exchange rate can function as a vital anchor and a stabilising force. However, particularly against the backdrop of increasingly globalised capital flows, each exchange rate regime holds its specific immanent risks. The present dissertation delves in three chapters into two particular exchange rate regime related risk aspects - the peril of a currency crisis and the possibility of an inflation acceleration in the wake of the euro adoption hotly debated in most of the euro candidate countries.