BIS Review 56/2004  3  Ladies and gentlemen, by attending this workshop and contributing to it, you have shown your interest in all these issues. I very much welcome your active participation. Thank you once again for coming.
Relative weights of 3 to 1 are used. The peaks in the second quarter of 1994 and the fourth quarter of 1997 are due to high interest rates because of speculative pressures against drachma in May 1994 and October 1997.