The Magyar Nemzeti Bank is committed to making available to the general public central bank analyses dealing with various topical economic and financial trends of general interest. the current issue of the bulletin contains three articles which present the usefulness of consumer and composite confidence indicators in forecasting, the causes and effects of intense domestic cash usage, and the relationship between foreign currency debt, exchange rate depreciation and GDP.
The articles of this volume can be downloaded below:
Katalin Bodnár: Household consumption expenditures and the consumer confidence index
Anikó Bódi-Schubert: Factors behind high cash usage in Hungary
Judit Krekó and Marianna Endrész: The role of foreign currency lending in the impact of the exchange rate on the real economy
The complete volume is downloadable here:
MNB Bulletin March 2010