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Economic Recovery and Foreign Exchange Rate Regime: The Case of the Czech Republic

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The key issue facing transition economies in Central Europe has been the initiation of economic recovery.

The author is grateful to G. Fink, R. Portes, C. Wihlborg, and S. Wright for helpful comments on the first version of the paper.

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Hrnčíř, M. (1994). Economic Recovery and Foreign Exchange Rate Regime: The Case of the Czech Republic. In: Gács, J., Winckler, G. (eds) International Trade and Restructuring in Eastern Europe. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-28276-2_4

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