IMF Staff Country Reports

Republic of Croatia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

August 12, 2004

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Republic of Croatia: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed October 13, 2024

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This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper analyzes monetary transmission in Croatia. The evidence analyzed in this paper supports the view that monetary policy in Croatia is not an effective tool for aggregate demand management. One of the main conclusions is that financial conditions in the economy are only weakly correlated with the monetary policy stance. Monetary policy can exercise some control over money-market interest rates, but its influence on lending rates is uncertain and comes with long lags. The paper also examines determinants of lending rates and domestic spreads in Croatia.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Economic sectors, Employment protection, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, Informal economy, Labor, Money, Money markets

Keywords: CR, Credit, Eastern Europe, Employment protection, EPL index, Exchange rates, Informal economy, Interest rate, Interest rate channel, ISCR, Lending, Lending rate, Lending spread, Monetary policy, Money market rate, Money markets, Rate

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    53

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/251

  • Stock No:

    1HRVEA0012004

  • ISBN:

    9781451817294

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685