<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Globalisation with all its features can be divided in two segments - good and bad. When we look at the good side of globalisation, it is obvious that it has erased boundaries between countries in terms of trade, education, knowledge sharing, and other new technologies, while on the other hand, the bad side is that it has created a considerable gap between developed and developing countries, then different types of commercial, political and other conditioning, and dependence on strong, developed states. A great contribution to the negative part of globalisation was of economic instability that occurred at the beginning of this century and which consequences are still present in the world. In this article, we presented the impact of economic instability on the price index trough a comparative analysis of transition countries such as Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia over a period of five years (Croatia has just recently become a member of the European Union and due to that fact it was included in this study). The survey covered price indices relating to the prices of industrial products for the domestic markets, consumer price indices, indices of the hospitality services and the prices of the agricultural products.</p></abstract>

Globalisation with all its features can be divided in two segments - good and bad. When we look at the good side of globalisation, it is obvious that it has erased boundaries between countries in terms of trade, education, knowledge sharing, and other new technologies, while on the other hand, the bad side is that it has created a considerable gap between developed and developing countries, then different types of commercial, political and other conditioning, and dependence on strong, developed states. A great contribution to the negative part of globalisation was of economic instability that occurred at the beginning of this century and which consequences are still present in the world. In this article, we presented the impact of economic instability on the price index trough a comparative analysis of transition countries such as Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia over a period of five years (Croatia has just recently become a member of the European Union and due to that fact it was included in this study). The survey covered price indices relating to the prices of industrial products for the domestic markets, consumer price indices, indices of the hospitality services and the prices of the agricultural products.

A Comparative Analysis of the Price Index in Transition Countries in the Time of Globalisation

Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice

Globalisation with all its features can be divided in two segments - good and bad. When we look at the good side of globalisation, it is obvious that it has...

A Comparative Analysis of the Price Index in Transition Countries in the Time of Globalisation

Published Online: Mar 11, 2014

Page range: 101 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jcbtp-2014-0007

Keywords
globalisation, price index, transition countries

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A Comparative Analysis of the Price Index in Transition Countries in the Time of Globalisation

Published Online: Mar 11, 2014

Page range: 101 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jcbtp-2014-0007

Keywordsglobalisation, price index, transition countries

This content is open access.

Keywords
globalisation, price index, transition countries