In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...

A basic result of new economic geography (NEG) models is that the proximity to consumer markets impacts wages and employment within regions. The ongoing process of European integration, being targeted on the reduction of barriers to trade and factor mobility, has presumably changed relative...

This article offers a new reading ofintra-European trade based on recent developments innew international economics (Melitz, 2003; Chaney,2008). These models take the heterogeneity of firmsinto account and offer a micro-economic analysis ofthe process of selection at work for firms enteringmarkets....

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion of regional...

This paper derives a stochastic endogenous growth model that investigates the impact of European Union integration on convergence and productivity growth. We deviate from the general strand of literature by not only deriving a theoretical model for the effects of integration on the rate of...

Kaum ein Projekt im Bereich des europ?ischen Arbeits- und Sozialrechts ist so umstritten gewesen wie die Europ?ische Aktiengesellschaft. Die Dissertation stellt die Entwicklung der Europ?ischen Aktiengesellschaft vor dem Hintergrund der Europ?ischen Integration dar und geht der Frage nach, ob...

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...