Währungsunion. Hintergrund für diese Erweiterung ist das in Deutschland, aber auch in manchen anderen EU-Staaten, zu beobachtende …

A rational financial constitution of the EU should be able to fulfil redistributive objectives at minimum costs. The … and the pressure will increase to open new financial sources for the EU in form of a competence to issue debt and to …

The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …

Between 2009 and 2012 the percentage of online consumers in the EU who made online purchases in another EU Member State … increased from 8 to 11 per cent, below the target of 20 per cent put forward in the EU Digital Agenda. Both, subjective …

consumption: cross-border trade costs. We use data on cross-border e-commerce between EU Member States to estimate the implied … channels is generally positive for EU Member States, ranging between 0.07 and 0.25 per cent of GDP. As such, this paper adds an …

goods and services in other EU Member States. It relies on data from a consumer survey carried out in February-March 2015 in … the EU28. By comparing named websites with respondents' answers on the location of web shops, we find that 77% correctly …