together and that their influence is thus fairly limited. We argue that as the EU seemingly lacks energy to implement further … EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on … the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also to …

early 2000's both in quot;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU member states. We estimate effects of labour market institutions on …;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU members …

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … aim is to assess whether “old” and “new” EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether “new” ones are … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst “new” EU countries typically have lower ratings than “old” ones, after …

In this paper, we track fiscal authority behaviour in the ten new EU member states (NMS) in the period which … immediately preceded their EU accession. We first present basic stylized facts about public budgets of those countries. The paper …