performance of the Western Balkan countries with Bulgaria and Romania (which became EU Members in 2007) and Croatia (which became … an EU Member in 2013). Our results indicate that all Western Balkan countries have surpassed the level of productivity of … relatively high level (compared to neighbouring countries). These results make the case that advancing the EU accession process …

economic effects of the EU accession countries entering the "Stabilisation and Association Agreement" (SAA) with the EU and the … strong positive effects on trade for the SAA countries, but only small effects for the EU Member States. Conducting a …