Spain was not admitted to the then European Economic Community during the Francos regime for political reasons. Joining the EU on January 1986 was the last and final step forward towards the definitive consolidation of democracy in Spain and the consolidation of the opening of the Spanish...

Entrepreneurship is a concept of current as of great significance as it is cultural. Direct correlation with the manifestation of his country's economic development comes only to update the strategic importance and invariably interdependent with other factors that influence development....

In our study, we investigate competition in the banking systems of the EU27 as a whole, but also in both old EU member states and new EU member states, in the context of European Union integration and enlargement. Specifically, we construct 2 measures of competition, the Lerner Index and...

We document external investment positions among European Union countries at the start of the financial crisis through the creation of a new database comprising bilateral external financial asset and liabilities, excluding reserve assets and derivatives. While there are some gaps in the data, the...

The paper adresses the need for more flexibility in the integration process of the European Union after its recent eastward enlargement. Due to the increasing number of decision-makers and the increasing heterogeneity of economic structures, financial constraints, societal preferences, and...

Associated mainly with Mathematics, Philosophy and technical inventions, J. M. Hoene-Wroñski proved to be - one of the first among Poles – author of the concept of a European federation. Due to a dispersion of these considerations amongst several publications, this concept has not been widely...

Romania has been involved in the field of security and defense, named until December 2009 ESDP (European Security and Defence Policy) and is now subject to the CSDP, even before joining the EU, recorded at the 1st of January 2007. Today, Romania is an active participant in CSDP, both political...

This Paper analyses patterns of production across 14 industries in 45 regions from seven European countries since 1975. We estimate a structural equation derived directly from neoclassical trade theory that relates an industry’s share of a region’s GDP to factor endowments, relative prices...

While many studies have documented deviations from the Law of One Price in international settings, evidence is scarce on the extent to which consumers take advantage of price differentials and engage in cross border shopping. We use data from 287 Swedish municipalities to estimate how responsive...