continue to grow exponentially, as appears to be the case for the foreseeable future, the entire competition policy setting for …

numerous and more are under negotiation. We separately synthesize and evaluate provisions in five areas: competition policy …

determined the trajectory of their EU membership, becomes essential.The paper questions and analyses the validity of the … populations and their determination toward the EU and the Western Balkans adhesion …

(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary …We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one â Norway â did not join the EU …This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage …

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a … model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically-advanced EU firms (residing in high … enlargement that is directed towards high-income countries. The evidence presented in the paper supports our hypothesis …

This paper explores the economic consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with countries from Central and … Eastern Europe. We focus on integration aspects that go beyond the reduction of formal trade barriers, namely accession to the … substantially from accession to the internal market, although some sectors in these countries will shrink. Most EU countries will …