This book brings together policymakers, high-level practitioners, academics, and experts from central banks and international institutions in order to review key policy challenges for convergence in the region of central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. Contributions focus especially on...

Overview -- Overview -- Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in an Enlarged EU: Opportunities and Challenges -- Evolving Pattern of Intra-industry Trade Specialization of the New Member States of the EU: The Case of the Automotive Industry -- FDI Spillovers in the Czech Republic: Takeovers Versus...

As the role of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in the economic development of countries grows, a focus on how MNEs influence the process of regulatory and legislative structures has developed among scholars of international political economy. Yusaf H. Akbar draws a conceptual link between the...

The analysis in this book reflects various aspects of financial sector transformation in selected Central European countries that are expected to join the EU in 2004. The authors are Central European financial experts who provide, among other things, a detailed overview of the following main...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory of Trade Agreements and Economic Integration, Size of Economics, Trade Costs and Economic Welfare -- 3 An Empirical Analysis of the Size Characteristics of Economies -- 4 An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Trade Costs on Trade Flows and Welfare:...

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

This book offers a critical analysis of recent developments in the automotive industry of East-Central Europe (ECE). Economists, industry specialists and national governments have considered the rapid development of the automotive industry in ECE in the past twenty years an unqualified success....

This book examines the dramatic increase in automotive assembly plants in the former Socialist Central European (CE) nations of Czechia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia from 1989 onwards. Enticed by relatively lower-wage labour and significant government incentives, the world’s...

This book's thirteen contributions bring together the results of recent research on determinants of regional specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures,...