This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is … decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and … characteristic inter-country pattern of enlargement-induced welfare effects for all EU15 countries. Aggregating these across …

Die Osterweiterung der EU verursacht für die bestehenden Mitgliedsländer Kosten. Sowohl die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik …, als auch die Regional- und Strukturpolitik der EU werden zu einem Nettotransfer von den alten zu den neuen … präsentiert, und die "österreichischen Ergebnisse" werden dann näherungsweise auf die anderen EU-Länder übertragen. Es entsteht …

approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

We compare the distributional effects of policy changes presented as fiscal consolidation measures in nine EU countries …, using the EU microsimulation model EUROMOD. The nine countries, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal …

The new trade theory explains several features of the current development of EU's trade with CEECs better than the … peripheral EU countries. However, this induced increased specialization in EU countries, which contrasts with the development in …Um gewisse Merkmale der gegenwärtigen Entwicklung des Osthandels der EU zu erklären, ist die neue Außenhandelstheorie …