This study reviews the progress made in EU accession candidates on competition policy. The analysis shows that institution-building and legislation are well under way and that anti-trust practice is not too lax. Due to the diversity among the accession countries under review, the study finds...

With the central and eastern European countries (CEECs) increasingly included into the international division of labour in the European economic space, we are prompted to ask whether this integration operates on a level playing field with respect to competition policy. In fact, our analysis...

The focus of this article is on the match between strategic motives of foreign investors in Central-Eastern Europe and locational advantages offered by these countries. Our analysis makes use of the IWH-FDI-Micro database, a unique dataset that contains information from 2009 about the...

This paper attempts to analyse the structure and development of marchandise imports into Poland and Estonia, and assess their influence on the respective conditions of catch-up development for the two economies: whilst capital imports constitute an important condition for overcoming the...