implementation in the EU are determined. We find that (1) implemented budgetary adjustment falls systematically short of planned …

of EU regional initiative. …

(EPAs) with the EU. We use data from the World Bank’s Doing Business Database on the time required to export or import as … indicators of cross-border transaction costs. A gravity model on two-way bilateral trade between 22 EU countries and 106 … Caribbean have negative and significant effects from export transaction costs, as do EU and non-ACP developing countries. The …

The paper analyses the proposal to create a hard core of EU countries committed to deeper and faster integration by … the whole EU, Japan and the United States. The second uses principal component and cluster analyses to investigate whether … these five countries represent a homogenous grouping vis-à-vis the other EU members. …

Since at least the 1960s, the European Union (EU) has offered various kinds of non-reciprocal trade preferences for … researchers as well as in policy circles. The aim of this paper is therefore to analyse the impact of the EU’s non …

inflationary expectations as well as on inflationary perceptions has been collected in a unified way on an EU-wide basis for … inflation during the coming 12 months. The analysis covers all EU member states that have relevant data. We examine the forecast …