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Determinants of Currency Substitution in Southeast European Countries

Open Access
|Apr 2016

Abstract

Currency substitution is widespread in less developed countries. Since it increases financial vulnerability and limits the effectiveness of monetary policy, it is often in the focus of scientists and experts. In this paper, we analyze the importance of euroization determinants in Serbia and neighboring countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Romania and Croatia for the period 2003-2014. We examine the impact of domestic inflation, nominal exchange rate of the domestic currency against the euro, interest rate spread on domestic and foreign currency, foreign currency inflow in the form of foreign direct investments and exports, as well as the euroization of banks’financial resources on the degree of loan euroization. The results obtained by multiple regression panel methods confirm the statistical significance and assumed direction of the influence of all analyzed variables except inflation and current account balance.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2015-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2217-3668 | Journal ISSN: 0353-8648
Language: English
Page range: 162 - 184
Submitted on: Apr 28, 2015
Accepted on: Jun 26, 2015
Published on: Apr 15, 2016
Published by: University of Niš, Faculty of Economics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Marina Pepić, Srđan Marinković, Ognjen Radović, Marko Malović, published by University of Niš, Faculty of Economics
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