Two or three decades from now, economic historians will note that a hallmark of successful transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was the speed in which it became a non-issue for the body politic. A corollary of this is the expectation that, as formerly centrally planned economies...

The aim of the project was to provide an overview of the competitiveness of the forest-based and related industries in the 10 CEECs, from the Finnish point of view, and to study in particular the development potential for the Finnish packaging industry in the region. An important question is...

Based on a spatially augmented gravity model the current paper isolates spatial interrelationships in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) not only across the destination but also across the origin country dimension of FDI. Results show that: (i)...

Für Arbeitskräfte aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländern der Europäischen Union (EU) sind die Möglichkeiten, in Deutschland einer Beschäftigung nachzugehen, stark eingeschränkt. Dennoch kam es nach der EU-Osterweiterung von 2004 zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Zuwanderungen...

A new macroeconomic evaluation of EU enlargement is undertaken with a world macroeconomic model taking into account all possible integration effects: trade effects, Single Market effects, factor movements (FDI, migration) and the costs of enlargement. Due to the differences in size of the...

National science and technology (S&T) systems are mentioned, in politics as well as in science, as a condition for the competitiveness of domestic high technology industries. An active S&T policy has, therefore, great importance for governments. Eastern European countries see, in an active S&T...

Monetary policy in CEE is an important determinant in the wage bargaining process, because trade unions have to predict inflation as one component of future real wages. This paper scrutinizes whether countries in CEE that officially announce an inflation target are tempted to act...

The information technology sector in Europe, comprising the production of computer hardware and software, is disproportionately located on the continent’s western periphery. The vast bulk of computers sold in Europe in the 1990s were assembled either in Ireland or Scotland, while Ireland also...

Plenarvortrag bei der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, 28.9.-1.10.1999 in Mainz.