> 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. …

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision …-making efficiency and the distribution of power in the EU's leading decision making body the Council of Ministers. We compare two …

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

of EU regional initiative. …

paper is two-fold. First we simulate the impact of the eastern enlargement of the EU and, second, we analyse how deeper … integration between the EU and Russia contributes to this. The analysis is carried out with GTAP computable general equilibrium … seems, even in its very deep form, be beneficial for all EU regions without causing substantial welfare losses outside the …

discussion of the likely effects of deregulation in the EU. The paper argues that the benefits of U.S. deregulation, as … reorganization is identified as a means for improving airline efficiency in the EU, which is currently far below that of U ….S. carriers. Such an efficiency improvement is necessary if EU deregulation is to lead to lower fares, as in the U.S. However, the …