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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union
Campos, Nauro - 2021
One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis posits that the prospect of membership in the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792626
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To Europe or not to Europe? : migration and public support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996339
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Close encounters of the European kind: economic integration, sectoral heterogeneity and structural reforms
Campos, Nauro; Eichenauer, Vera; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
? Using more granular reform measures, longer time windows and a larger sample of countries than previous studies, we confirm … that the euro triggered product but neither labour nor financial market reforms. Differently from previous studies, we find … that: (a) the Single Market has similar effects to the euro, and (b) sectoral heterogeneity appears less important in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291227
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Economic growth and political integration : estimating the benefits from membership in the European Union using the synthetic counterfactuals method
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2014
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350820
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The distribution of well-being among Europeans
Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019
the divergence between periphery and core countries in the euro area. Using a common EU standard reveals more progress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015871
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769782
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The role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590825
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The role of the exchange rate regime in the process of real and nominal convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
-S type of regression for each regime. Our results show that, for countries which pegged to or adopted the euro, the effect of … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191206
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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391753
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Mobility in an enlarging European Union : projections of potential flows from EU's eastern neighbors and Croatia
Fertig, Michael; Kahanec, Martin - 2013
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194751