neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim to assess the existing trends in the size of the gaps across … countries and problem areas, taking into consideration the specific origin of the gap between EU15/EU12, on the one hand, and … FSU republics, EU candidates and West Balkan countries, on the other hand. The paper is structured as follows: 1. A review …

The EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 1997 foresees the possible … an EU-Russia FTA will be beneficial to the Russian Federation and the EU27. Some sectors are expected to contract in the … to expand, while only a few sectors in the EU27 are expected to register negligible decreases in output. We estimate that …

This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to …

unterschiedlichem Tempo und sequencing den Weg zu Demokratie und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Wirtschaftsordnung. Die polit … die Frage, ob die Einführung von Demokratie angesichts umfassender ökonomischer Reformen nicht besser verzögert werden … sollte. Nach einer theoretischen Betrachtung von Governance, Demokratie und Reformen folgt in diesem Beitrag ein Überblick …

subjects may exit. In a simple model, both kinds of competition are substitutes. Internal competition (democracy) benefits … democracy, and rulers are less eager to oppose it, when external competition is high. In a panel of countries, there are fewer … changes towards democracy when states have low GDP relative to their neighbours. …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can …

Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and highpersistence of income and democracy, we … find a statistically significant positive relationbetween income and democracy for a postwar period sample of up to 150 …