population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries except Germany. The UK population has …

either recently joined the EU or are candidate or potential candidate countries. It is motivated by the fact that, in … increasing over time. Inflation volatility in south-eastern Europe is significantly higher than in the euro area. While this is …

) from the European Union (EU) to the ten EU accession countries. We study FDI outflows for Romania, a small economy with few … historical ties to Eastern Europe, and compare FDI in the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe to FDI in other …

investigates the determinants of banks’ interest margins in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Given the run-up to EU entry and EU …

current EU members. From this, we conclude that the present priorities and instruments of EU regional policy equally apply to …

advanced accession countries, the shocks remain significantly more idiosyncratic. Furthermore, many EU countries seem to have a … much higher correlation with the core euro area countries than in the previous decades. Continuing integration within the … EU seems to have aligned the business cycles of these countries as well. …

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet …

panel data, the study finds substantial variation in the impacts of financial risks, the macroeconomic environment, and …