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The eastward enlargement of the eurozone: social and policy aspects in Portugal, Spain and Italy
Galego, Aurora; Caétano, José; Costa, Sofia; Liiv, Reilika - 2003
This report explores some features of the social dimension of enlargement regarding the Southern EU-Member countries …, capital and labour, Eastward Enlargement will affect the location of economic activities, innovation, and technology … aspects have been analysed in several studies, stressing that the regional and social dimension of enlargement as well as the …
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Northern and Eastern Enlargement of EMU: Do Structural Reforms Matter?
Hallett, Andrew Hughes; Jensen, Svend E Hougaard; … - 2004
This paper studies the incentives to join or enlarge a monetary union under alternative assumptions about the extent of market reform within the union and in candidate countries. Lack of labour mobility, wage/price flexibility or fiscal reform brings costs for both new entrants and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689914
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EU enlargement and satisfaction with democracy: A peculiar case of immizerising growth
Dluhosch, Barbara; Horgos, Daniel; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - 2012
Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292650
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Eastern enlargement of the EU: Jobs, investment and welfare in present member countries
Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2001
Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue … model with search unemployment of high- and low-skilled labor, we simulate the effects of enlargement on Germany finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294557
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Die Osterweiterung aus raumwirtschaftlicher Perspektive: Prognosen regionalökonomischer Erfahrungen aus der bisherigen Integration in Europa
Lammers, Konrad - 2002
experiences with integration in Europe, especially the Southern enlargement, and the economic performance of and within the …
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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Countries in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe
Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2004
This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European future Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of ?emerging...
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297670
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Machtverteilung im Ministerrat: nach dem Vertrag von Nizza und den Konventsvorschlägen in einer erweiterten Europäischen Union
Borkowski, Agnieszka - 2003
states will change. The enlargement will have an impact upon the efficiency of decision-making and thus requires … December 2000, has not satisfactorily prepared the Union for the enlargement. The European Convention, which worked out the … Ministers after enlargement power indices are used. This mathematical method measures the voting power of a member state in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299428
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Real and monetary convergence within the European Union and between the European Union and candidate countries: A rolling cointegration approach
Brada, Josef C.; Kutan, Ali M.; Zhou, Su - 2002
We use rolling cointegration to measure the convergence of base money, M2, the consumer price index and industrial output between two reference countries, Germany and France, and recent EU members and some transition economy candidates. Counties that recently joined the EU exhibit time-varying...
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A Prototype Model of EU's 2007 Enlargement
Breuss, Fritz - 2007
EU's 2007 enlargement by Bulgaria and Romania is evaluated by applying a simple macroeconomic integration model able to … Romania spill-over to EU15, including Austria and the 10 new member states of the 2004 EU enlargement. The pattern of the … integration effects is qualitatively similar to those of EU?s 2004 enlargement by 10 new member states. Bulgaria and Romania gain …
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