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 …

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

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 …

We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for … higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited … explain why presidential democracy leads to faster growth than parliamentary democracy. Third, it is important to distinguish … growth effect of democracy. …

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

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors … as with institutional environment and firm size. Furthermore, industries that, for scale or technological reasons, are … democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones. …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …