liberalization and adhesion to the European Union. However, even today, these economies, and in particular Portugal, do not rival … country faced in the process of adopting new technologies. The numerical experiments suggest that Spain had consistently lower … barriers than Portugal and that the gap has been increasing since the establishment of the European Single Market. The last …

current Doha Proposals, estimates for the EU are highly aggregated (i.e., EU15). Employing a detailed baseline scenario and a … plausible Doha outcome, we examine the long run costs for the European Union, in particular focusing on Spain. Moreover, we … run asymmetric budgetary and welfare impacts on EU member states. Our estimates forecast resource substitution effects …

Wechselwirkungen zwischen zunehmender wirtschaftlicher Integration und national bzw. supranational bestimmter Umweltpolitik. Die Arbeit … trägt die modelltheoretischen Bausteine zusammen, mit denen Umweltpolitik in offenen Volkswirtschaftn unter Effizienz …-und Verteilungsapekten analysiert werden kann, im dritten Teil dienen diese einer normativen und positiven Analyse der Umweltpolitik in der …

This paper deals with problems connected with the present economic slow-down in the "old" EU member states. We all hope … that the integration of new member states into the EU will bring a new impetus for European production and trade. However …