The Baltics
Business Vulnerability to Changes in Energy Prices in the Baltics. KPMG in the Baltics
... The benefi ts outlined above have mostly been transferred to the energy effi ciency investment programmes in all three Baltic countries. While energy effi ciency is obviously a major bottle neck, imposing considerable ...
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Migration patterns to Russia from Central Asia and the Baltics since independence
... the Baltics have followed similar upward trends since the mid- to late-1990s, although Estonia has risen to the highest level among the group, exceeding $18,500 PPP in 2010 while Russia stood at $15,800 ...
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Time-varying Co-Movement And Volatility Transmission Between The Oil Price And Stock Markets In The Baltics And Four European Countries
... Additionally, a negative return is observed for the EU (1.2 %) and the UK (0.4 %). The next column presents the indices’ standard deviations and it can be observed that the Russian stock market is the most risky market, ...
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A Comparative Study of the Development of National Press Systems in the Former Soviet Republics of the Baltics, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
... Almost twenty-five years have passed since the end of the Soviet era and the arrival of independence. According to Richter, in the beginning in a number of former Soviet republics, the definition of press freedom and ...
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Do countries catch cold when trading partners sneeze? Evidence from spillovers in the Baltics
... The relative importance of potential channels of spillovers to the Baltics is examined in this section, following the procedure of Bayoumi and Swiston (2007). This consists of augmenting our original VAR model by ...
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Passportisation policy of Russia and new old concerns of the Baltics
... While some countries (like Central Asian republics) automatically accepted all residents as citizens, other states (like the Baltics) tightened up the process. Naturalization requirements, for example, were set ...
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COST EFFECTIVENESS OF FOREIGN AID PROGRAMS IN THE BALTICS
... In order to assess the cost-effectiveness of programs, we need criteria for measuring costs and benefits. We have come across very subjective and sometimes controversial measurements of costs and benefits. Although we ...
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Strategies for Deeper Integration: Case Study of the Baltics
... the Baltics compared to Sweden or the UK may explain why it is particularly “profitable” for low-ability agents to migrate to these countries, which not only have higher average wage, but are also characterised ...
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The Role of Banks in the Transmission of Monetary Policy in the Baltics
... the Baltics started at the end of 1991 and at the beginning of 1992 when the Baltic branches of the central bank of the former Soviet Union were taken over by the newly established central banks of Estonia, Latvia ...
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Flat Tax Reform.The Baltics 2000 – 2007.
... the Baltics and the assumption that government spending is a constant fraction of output, altogether the results suggest that an imbalance of taxes that fall on labor relative to taxes that fall on capital causes ...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Security Dilemma in the Baltics?
... Just as this kind of rhetoric can arguably have real life consequences on foreign policy issues, including war, those issues in themselves have consequences as well. If this constructed security dilemma spills over into ...
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The Baltics - Banking crises observed
... 2.11 Lithuania: In contrast, the Lithuanian Government decided early on to corporatize and partially privatize the three specialized state-owned banks which were split off[r] ...
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Capital Markets Day Atria Finland & Baltics Juha Gröhn
... Atria is the first choice for consumers and customers in fresh food. • The first choice for consumers:[r] ...
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