. An interaction term of potential trade costs after exiting the EU and a measure of firms' participation in global trade …

explaining these differences for EU New Member States. By extending a standard growth model with novel data on consumption and … share of labor supply differences across EU New Member States and that the potential gains from policy actions are …

EU in 2004 (EU-10). During the pre-accession period, these countries had to undertake a number of important structural …) were carried out in the EU-10 during 1995–2005, and explains observed variations across types of subsidies and across …

This paper explores inflation determinants within the EU and implications for new members'' euro adoption plans. Factor … analysis partitions observed inflation in EU25 countries into common-origin and country-specific (idiosyncratic) components …. Cross-country differences in common-origin inflation within the EU are found to depend on gaps in the initial price level …

these countries are also compared to EU countries that currently do not participate in the EMU. Focusing on the period 1993 …

and financial markets, even though it is not directly observable. The case of the EU new member states (NMS … experiment to assess the effects of credibility on sovereign credit. This paper examines the impact of EU accession on three key …

This paper discusses the findings of fiscal transparency reports on standards and codes (ROSCs) for most EU accession … establish policy credibility and anchor adjustment programs to meet EU fiscal goals. Adoption of budgeting and accounting … standards consistent with the IMF Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 framework will also help link budget decisions to EU …

This paper discusses the experience of the EU''s eight new member countries (EU8) between 1995 and 2003 when the bulk …