on European Union (EU) law. A related purpose of the paper is to challenge the dominant view that merger control is the …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of … FTEs. The desire to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU spurred major reform waves and led to the introduction of … institutions. The Washington institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Following the start of the EU …

In European Union ("EU") competition law, the supply policy of a dominant input provider can be deemed unlawful, if his … has since then been overruled by a subsequent judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") (III). Finally, we …

Starting on 1st of May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …