players in world trade - the EU and the USA - are also the busiest users of this instrument. After looking at links between … of the four most prominent trade disputes between the EU and the USA ("mini trade wars") are analyzed with GTAP5: the …

The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … the effects of the EU-Ukraine FTA taking into account the loss of tariff revenues as well as the changed economic … policy. According to our simulations the most welfare enhancing option would be the provision of financial support by the EU …

States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan … both NMS and (less so) the NIS towards the West. The recent trade developments on EU?NIS borders indicate a closer trade … EU exports is made up of manufacturing products. By contrast, EU imports from the NMS and NIS display a much more …

EU's 2007 enlargement by Bulgaria and Romania is evaluated by applying a simple macroeconomic integration model able to … Romania spill-over to EU15, including Austria and the 10 new member states of the 2004 EU enlargement. The pattern of the … integration effects is qualitatively similar to those of EU?s 2004 enlargement by 10 new member states. Bulgaria and Romania gain …

factors of production (capital and labor). In contrast, the consequences of FDI from the capital abundant country (EU) to the … country CGE model, including the EU and the CEEC. A panel regression for both regions separately, helps to decide empirically … advantage (increase in global net trade) has contributed to a decline in the labor income shares in the EU. Additionally, those …

specializations and economic policy coordination, contributed to the synchronization of business cycles in the enlarged EU. We … synchronization, specifically between incumbent and new EU members. More coordinated fiscal policies and, particularly in EU 15, the … EU income convergence, a declared objective of EU policy, supported business cycle synchronization. …

This study examines the economic impact on Austria of three possible new EU free trade agreements: (1) an EU …-US agreement; (2) an EU-Canada agreement; and (3) an EUArmenia/Georgia/Moldova agreement. This is done with a computational model … economy. The US accounts for roughly one-quarter of extra-EU Austrian exports. Overall, the combined impact of the FTAs …

> the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). First, is there evidence from the past that … EU membership contribute to, or slow this past trend for increasing economic integration across regions as well as within …

well as between fiscal policy of the EU countries and the other OECD countries. In particular, the EU countries react in a …-cyclical. However, ex ante fiscal policy is a-cyclical for the EU countries and counter-cyclical for the other countries. …