development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the … incentives for good governance. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …

accounting also for the possibilities of purchasing international carbon credits from outside the EU. A computable general … equilibrium model is then used to assess the cost efficiency of current EU climate strategies. Finally, based both on the …

of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … of the Europe Agreements. As trade overlaps between Asian and CEE supply on EU markets are low, the trade diversion fear …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …

competencies in the EU - and presents some implications of NIE for economic policy making, research and advisory activities. …

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from …