in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro …

This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 47 percent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … up to 30 per cent in the EU and up to 20 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic …

voter.The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …

among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …

use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to … our model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU …