Der vorliegende Bericht analysiert notwendige Rahmenbedingungen und arbeitet die Voraussetzungen heraus, die die ost- und mitteleuropäischen Länder erfüllen müssen, um am Wirtschaftsraum der Europäischen Union teilzunehmen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird geprüft, bei welchen Gütergruppen...

This paper investigates the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) influenced intra-industry trade (IIT) in automotive products in six New EU Member States (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) in the 1995-2014 period. Changes in IIT intensity are...

The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to...