In the process of implementing market reforms, many post-socialist countries have struggled to preserve economic and political integration. Using a statistical model of commodity trade, we quantify the evolution of economic integration observed among regions within Russia during 1995-1999, and...

This paper offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. I examine the usefulness of some standard interpretations for such variations, namely...

Mit zunehmender Globalisierung, nicht zuletzt auch seit den Erweiterungen der Europäischen Union sehen sich Konsumenten mit einer Fülle an Produkten aus einer Vielzahl an Ländern konfrontiert. Doch nicht nur auf Endabnehmer wirken sich diese Veränderung aus, auch gewerbliches Kaufverhalten...

Die EU-Osterweiterung war und ist das bestimmende Thema in Europa seit dem Kollaps der ehemaligen sozialistischen politischen Systeme Mittelosteuropas und ihrer planwirtschaftlichen Ökonomien. Das letzte Jahrzehnt des vergangenen Jahrtausends war vor allem durch die wirtschaftliche Annäherung...

A new resolve for both increased economic integration and monetary and exchange rate cooperation has started to emerge in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), especially since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. According to the optimum currency area theory, the degree of trade...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study project is to investigate how organisations operating in the European Union (EU) can sustain a competitive advantage amidst the changing European business environment. Due to stiff global competition, organisations are searching for new markets to gain...

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and single market- induced migration from new to present...

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...

This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...

The first round of negotiations held in Ottawa on the 19th October, 2009, heraldedthe opening of bilateral trade talks intent on reaching a Canadian-European Union(EU27) free trade area (FTA) agreement. A second round of negotiations were staged inBrussels in January, whilst further rounds are...