the 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 … vote together and that their influence is thus fairly limited. We argue that as the EU seemingly lacks energy to implement …

has also been proposed that the new EU Member States (NMS) may struggle with even higher persistence due to convergence …

in the EU managed to reduce their expected spending on pensions in both reference periods. In the second part of the … in the ten Central and Eastern European countries that became EU members in 2004 and 2007 (EU-10). -- pension system …

This paper analyzes possible incidences of Turkish EU accession on the emigration from Turkey to the European Union …. Panel data estimators are applied on the emigration data from EU-18 into Germany in order to construct possible future … scenarios of Turkish migration to the EU. Eventual migration flows from Turkey into the EU are forecasted based on the estimated …

shocks between the individual new EU member countries and the `EU-core'. Treating the whole economy as one sector this is a … to have strongly different behaviour during the crisis. -- OCA ; supply and demand shocks ; VAR decomposition ; new EU …

surveys, we compile structural indices for the 10 post-communist EU members (emerging markets) as well as 17 advanced EU … market regulatory regimes - including those within the EU - needed to compensate for limited regulatory resources and higher …

impact often diverge in new and old EU member countries. The differences are not robust enough, however, to allow us to … reject the hypothesis of similar effect of labor market institutions in new and old EU member states. -- labor market …

monetary policy settings of the ECB and the Fed on the forex markets of new EU members. We employ an Event Study Methodology to … post-GFC period shows that: (i) macroeconomic announcements affect the value of the new- EU-country exchange rates, (ii … the new-EU-country forex markets. …

million citizens of eleven Central and Eastern European countries into the EU. We examine country- and regional-level data on …% Croats, and Bulgarians lived in another EU country. The quantitative analysis shows that migration contributed positively to …