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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Svejnar, Jan - 2007
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … development has resulted in convergence of domestic firms to the world standard. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477424
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The Impact of EU Membership on Economic Growth and Real Convergence of the Central and Eastern European Countries
Rapacki, Ryszard; Próchniak, Mariusz - In: Ekonomia journal 39 (2014)
acceleration of economic growth of the 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEE-11), including their real convergence to the … convergence of GDP growth paths of the CEE-11 economies toward the EU-15. Our findings show that EU membership contributed …-up process in income levels toward the EU-15. The convergence accelerated after EU enlargement but the results of individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271589
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Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence?
Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2003
This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which -- for the purposes of this paper -- includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and Romania....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649586
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The CEECs in the Enlarged Europe: Convergence Patterns, Specialization and Labour Market Implications
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002
This paper discusses the evolution of competitiveness, industrial and trade specialization of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). It is shown that the paths taken by the different CEECs have been quite diverse and we attempt to show that a combination of a catching-up plus trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649622
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Convergence in Per Capita Income Levels, Productivity Dynamics and Real Exchange Rates in the EU Acceding Countries
Dobrinsky, Rumen - In: Empirica 30 (2003) 3, pp. 305-334
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005719057
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EU COHESION POLICY NEEDS DIFFERENTIATED POLICY MIX ADEQUATE TO SPECIFICS OF ECONOMIC REGIONS
ZAMAN, Gheorghe; CONSTANTIN, Daniela-Luminita; GOSCHIN, Zizi - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 26 (2008) 1(35), pp. 33-63
: convergence – competitiveness and employment – European territorial co-operation. The horizontal dimension of cohesion policy … EU average, these countries are the main beneficiary of the EU financial allocations, especially via convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800693
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Socio-Economic Gaps within the EU: A Comparison
Niroomand, Farhang; Nissan, Edward - In: International Advances in Economic Research 13 (2007) 3, pp. 365-378
This research investigates socio-economic gaps between countries of the European Union (EU). The countries, for comparison purposes, are grouped into five sets to find out if the different groupings differ in means and variances. The overall conclusion is that the 15 core combinations outperform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005809203
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Transition, EU Accession and Structural Convergence
Gács, János - In: Empirica 30 (2003) 3, pp. 271-303
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005680760
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Prospects for Further (South) Eastern EU Enlargement: Form Divergence to Convergence?
Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2003
This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which – for the purposes of this paper – includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782168
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The Effectiveness of Structural Policy in the European Union: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 during the Period 1995-2001
Beugelsdijk, Maaike; Eijffinger, Sylvester C W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
. In this study we considered two main themes. First, convergence of the current EU-member countries is empirically tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666865