Determinants of inflation in the Visegrad Four countries

The bachelor thesis deals with the causes of the sharp rise in inflation in the Visegrad Four countries, i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, in recent years. The aim of the thesis is to identify the main determinants of inflation and to find out what impact their change has on the inflation rate in the selected countries. The bachelor thesis will use statistical analyses to examine the relationships between inflation and the selected variables. These variables will be the industrial and agricultural producer price index, total import prices, food import prices, the discount rate of the real effective exchange rate of the domestic currency, gasoline prices and the nominal exchange rate against the US dollar. The comparison of the determinants of inflation of the Visegrad Four countries will yield the identification of similarities and differences between the countries. The output of the Bachelor's thesis should be to provide insight into what factors and variables influenced inflation in the Visegrad Four countries over the defined period. The thesis could thus serve as a report informing about the major influences on inflationary growth, not only for political actors but also for other economic actors. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)