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This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...
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The 2004 EU enlargement will most likely yield major benefits to the new member countries in the long run. The new members will be able to capture gains from trade in goods and services and will moreover benefit from a continued inflow of financial and real capital. Without doubt, these...
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behaviour of economic agents is affected not only by formal institutions such as law, new constitutions and organisations, but … also by social norms, old values and habits. There has been little consistency between formal and informal institutions … since the new institutions were built on the dichotomy between old rules and new formal rules. The inconsistency between …
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The coming enlargement of the European Union is an opportunity and a challenge for taking decisions on a substantial reform of its institutional framework. After the negative experience of the past Intergovernmental Conferences leading to the Treaties of Amsterdam and Nice, the preparation of...
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leap in the darku0094. The reports in this study deal with these issues as well as with reforms of EU institutions and … states, although below levels for the current 15 members. Earlier criticism is repeated regarding transition periods that … heavy goods. In quantitative terms, transition periods claimed by acceding countries by far outnumber those claimed by the …
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by a popular emphasis on democratic political institutions and individual freedom, a diminishing prestige of science …
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