We explore the economic implications of the possible accession of Croatia to the European Union. We focus on two main … changes associated with the EU-membership: accession to the internal European Market and institutional reforms in Croatia … triggered by the EU-membership. consumption per capita in Croatia is estimated to rise by about 2.5% as a result of accession to …

products with revealed comparative advantages in the EU markets for Hungary and to a lesser extent for Croatia, but have not … identified any such aggregated agro-food product group for Slovenia. Yet, also Hungary and Croatia have faced difficulties in …

Croatia recently signed several trade liberalisation agreements. The cornerstones of its trade policy are WTO … membership, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and Croatia's application of membership as well as bilateral … impact of Croatia's agricultural trade policy on the agri-food sector. For the analysis, a partial equilibrium model based on …

The report gives an overview of the overall trends in output and employment in Croatia, and of the country's fiscal and … developments in other Central, East and Southeast European economies. Finally some economic policy issues specific to Croatia are …. In contrast to the largely successful stabilization of prices and the exchange rate, Croatia's external position has …

Having reached a peak in 2002, Croatia's GDP growth lost momentum thereafter due to restrictive economic policy … has been identified as the main threat to macroeconomic stability. In 2004 Croatia, together with Latvia and Estonia, was … beginning of 2005 the World Bank downgraded Croatia to a ¿severely indebted middle-income country'. In addition, Croatia has one …