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 …

This paper provides an overview of energy and (implicit) CO2 taxation in the EU member countries. Against the … background of the EU energy taxation directives, energy and implicit CO2 tax rates in the EU countries are discussed, focussing … be on the rise in the EU. Evidence on the economic impacts of energy and carbon taxes furthermore shows that a double …

the voters' attitudes towards the EU. Using the French presidential elections in 2017 as a case study, we do not solely …-European or eurosceptic voting behaviour. In order to measure the effectiveness of EU structural funds and Cohesion Fund … characteristics to capture the citizens' perceived exposure to the EU in an empirical voting model for the French presidential …

A new macroeconomic evaluation of EU enlargement is undertaken with a world macroeconomic model taking into account all … gain around ten times more from enlargement than the EU. On average, enlargement is a win-win game. Hungary and Poland can … percent). The EU on average would gain around ½ percent of real GDP over a six year period. However, the impact is quite …

We estimate the pro-competitive effects of Austria's participation in the Single Market after its EU accession in 1995 …

Round. With a computable general equilibrium model we analyze the four most prominent trade disputes between the EU and the …

Subsidies linked to production have been classified to be environmentally harmful by OECD. A core element of the EU …