Purpose: This paper focuses on identifying the role of trade and legislation of a country for economic integration. Every Balkan country has claims to integrate into the large family of the European Union- EU. This context besides foreign trade legal infrastructure is one of the main...

La Unión Europea (UE) requiere de una acción rápida, duradera y suficiente ante la crisis sanitaria y económica provocada por el Covid-19. Las respuestas dadas por el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) y el Consejo de la UE han sido efectivas para mitigar la incidencia de la crisis en el corto...

La Unión Europea (UE) requiere de una acción rápida, duradera y suficiente ante la crisis sanitaria y económica provocada por el Covid-19. Las respuestas dadas por el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) y el Consejo de la UE han sido efectivas para mitigar la incidencia de la crisis en el corto...

Procesul de migrație a existat întotdeauna, variind în strânsă concordanță cu contextul istoric, interdependența dintre țările de origine și cele de destinație, evoluția procesului de integrare europeană, precum și contextul istoric, politic, economic, demografic și...

The dissertation involves an investigation into the circumstances of international competitiveness and how it is pursued by firms from different sugar producing and marketing nations. Understanding of competitiveness has primarily been pursued in terms of economic variables and market...

This paper presents results of a pilot study completed as part of the BestLog (Best Practices in Logistics) project. BestLog (www.bestlog.org) is a research project initiated by the European Commission (EC) and financed from the 6th Framework Programme. One of the project goals is to identify...

Small countries may benefit from the formation of a trade bloc, since their combined market power will enable them to manipulate the terms of trade. The question of interest is whether countries will benefit from the enlargement of a trading bloc, if trade liberalization induces countries to...

This paper identifies and analyzes the changes that have occurred in terms of territorial and commodity structure of agrarian trade (exports) of countries of the Visegrad Group (or V4 -i.e. Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) in the period 1993-2008. In terms of methodological...

The European Union decided in June 2003 a new reform of its farm policy with a new step toward the decoupling of farm income support instruments. Available impact studies find that this reform will reduce production incentives, substantially for beef and to a lesser extent for arable crops. All...

This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate private agricultural R&D investments. A model is proposed and fitted to annual data for seven European Union countries, 1984-1995. We find strong impacts of both incentives and...