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 …

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 …

Starting on 1 May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined the … European Union (EU) in three consecutive waves. Half a generation later, and a full generation after the start of transition in …

This chapter looks into the impact of EU membership on the carbon intensity of EU11 economies since joining the EU. EU … membership boosted foreign trade and FDI, leading to a rapid re-industrialization of EU11 and making them the fastest converging … group of upper-middle-income countries in the world. Nevertheless, EU11 economies maintained their previously established …

The paper analyzes foreign exchange market volatility in four Central European EU accession countries in 2001-2003. By …

1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a … -- 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 -- 5. How the European Union made Poland European Again -- 6. Transformation of the … financing and foreign trade model of the Hungarian economy after EU accession -- 7. Macroeconomic trends in the Baltic States …