Skills and the competitiveness of EU manufacturing industries (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer, pp. 1-11) Keywords … skills, competitiveness, manufacturing, EU Countries covered European Union Topics Industry; International Trade and …

What is ‘the’ EU internal market, as economists see it? The present BEER paper attempts to survey and help readers ….e. its proper functioning) is good for. Put differently, the internal market in the EU Treaty is a means, but a means to what …

The social dimension of the internal market or of the EU more generally has recently been under quite fundamental … the EU at large. This overall conclusion is reached following five steps. First, several 'preliminaries' of the social … EU and Member States' levels is spelled out, broken down into four aspects (social spending; labour market regulation …

that national differences of the pass-through speed in the EU can be regarded as a retail-oriented indicator of financial …

like the EU deficit limits. The econometric results indicate that the decline is largely due to two developments: First to … privatisation process nor EU deficit restrictions of the Maastricht Treaty can explain the decline. …

Havlik, Michael Landesmann and Olga Pindyuk; pp. 2-6) Agricultural imports from LDCs a comparison across EU-27 Member States … of SMEs’ funding obstacles – a comparative analysis of EU-15 and NMS-13 countries (by Sandra Leitner and Marek Rojicek …

Do High-Skilled Third-Country (i.e. Non-EU) Migrants Contribute to Productivity Growth? In order to foster innovation … 13 old EU Member States and examines the role of high-skilled third-country (HS-TC) migrants for innovation – as captured …-TC migrants are relatively less productive than HS EU migrants. Results for selected individual industries are more mixed, with …

limited sanctions response, particularly from the EU, while a full invasion would entail major sanctions from the West as a … the EU -is unlikely given the sizeable negative impact it would have on both sides. Aside from energy, the most painful … accelerate EU moves towards energy diversification away from Russia. However, the economic impact of this on Russia will be …