In this paper we look at the evolution of the R&D intensity gap between the EU and its major competitors using data … the EU and its major competitors (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian Tigers) and then we look more closely at the role and evolution … on the EU-US R&D intensity gap and, by applying firm level econometric analysis, we test whether the results obtained by …

convergence and the so-called structural convergence, at the EU level (EU-27), but also inside of Eastern group of countries (EU …-10) and inside of Western group of countries (EU-15). As a main conclusion, a general tendency of convergence was … demonstrated at the EU level. However, between the two groups of countries, there were some significant differences both in matter …

The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and Ukraine is the next … very scarce research on the effects of the EU-Ukraine FTA incorporating the changed economic conditions after Ukraine’s WTO … modified version of the static CGE model of Pavel et al. (2004). It is implemented in GAMS/MPSGE and considers producers …

, e.g. CAP reform, FTAs, WTO, and their impact on the agricultural sector, with particular emphasis in the UK. General … is to ‘link’ the models. Our GE model, DefraTAP, is built on the GTAP-AGR model with added specificity for EU … sequential implementation of scenarios, where the outcome from one model serves as the input for the other. For CAP reform …

) stock market, regional factor Europe (RF EU) stock market and as the world factor oil price (WF Oil) changes on the eight … country j has been explained respectively by Global Factor US (GF US), Regional Factor EU (RF EU), local factor (own market of … from the US-global, EU-regional, and the world factor oil towards individual stock markets. While both mean and volatility …