Capital flows and growth dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe

Karsten Staehr ()

Post-Communist Economies, 2018, vol. 30, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: This article assesses the importance of capital flows as measured by the current account balance for the growth dynamics of the EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Economic growth in these countries was on average relatively high before the global financial crisis but markedly lower after the crisis. Panel data econometrics using annual data for 1997–2015 point to the contemporaneous current account balance having a sizeable negative effect on annual GDP growth. Estimations using many control variables and instrumental variables suggest that the negative effect is mainly demand driven. Counterfactual simulations show that growth rates in all CEE countries would have been lower in the absence of capital flows, and this applies particularly to the countries with the most disadvantageous starting points.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2017.1362195

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