Many studies with different methods (CGE models, DSGE models, structural gravity equations) have recently evaluated EU …. The aim of this paper is to develop a simple EU model which uses readily accessible data, and which is replicable in … EViews. First the 10 equations macro model is used to evaluate Austria's EU membership since 1995. Then the same prototype …

Austria's EU accession 25 years ago, alongside Finland and Sweden, was preceded by an extended period of convergence … toward the EU: via the free trade agreement concluded with the EC in 1973, and the participation in the European Economic … Area (EEA) in 1994. Although the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 seems to overshadow the overall positive balance of 25 years of EU …