In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...

Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier berichtet aus der Sicht der tschechischen Republik von den laufenden Herausforderungen und Veränderungen Europas. Dabei werden die Probleme des Transformationsprozesses ebenso diskutiert wie die Schwierigkeiten einer möglichen Integration in die EU.

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...