European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one - Norway - 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 …

firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered … located in participating economies. Enlargement has, instead, two contrasting effects. It improves the accessibility of EU … and enlargement on the competitiveness of European firms. We find that EMU positively affects the competitiveness of firms …

2004 and 2007. The estimation effects of integration with the EU were carried out as a comparative case study using the …The paper analyses the economic implications of the accession of New Member States (NMS) to the European Union (EU) in … accession to the EU (Campos, Coricelli and Moretti), we check for the importance of the quality of economic institutions for the …

financial liberalization and integration of Baltic and Central European Countries (BCECs) since the 1990s. It investigates the … hypotheses that the type of financial integration chosen by the BCECs played an important role in enabling liberalization to …

10 and EU15 countries were developing in accordance with the convergence hypothesis. The impact of economic integration … economic integration and convergence as well as business environment and growth. The study methods applied in in the article … on convergence was confirmed as well as the dependence of growth from the business environment in EU10. The added value …

before and after accession to the EU -- 8. Bulgaria and Romania: The Latecomers to the Eastern Enlargement -- 9. Convergence …This edited volume analyses how EU membership influenced the convergence process of member countries in the Baltics …1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a …