in the EU. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the most recent EU enlargement on convergence among … countries and regions in the EU27. Departing from a new economic geography framework, we focus on integration effects caused by … significantly alter the findings of our convergence analysis. -- Integration ; market access ; EU enlargement ; convergence …

EU enlargement is supposed to entail profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there … is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, corresponding empirical results are … border regions in the EU27 since they are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by integration …

investigates how the accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to the European Union (EU) affected trade in …-2009, we find that EU accession mainly fostered Eastern entrants' integration in other CEECs' value chains. Smaller integration …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …

the EU and the CEECs on FDI flows in terms of three key issues. First, we provide systematic estimates of the expected …

scenario real export of the UK decreases by a significant 32% in the long run. Other EU countries also experience a decrease in … real export, while non-EU countries experience an increase due to trade diversion effects. Similarly, I also investigate …

particular, the EU's eastward enlargement or the EU-Korea trade agreement have lowered the UK's outward trade costs only … the UK from EU agreements resulting into a return of trade costs to the situation quo ante. We make this point with the … with other papers, the welfare costs of Brexit are higher in the UK than in most other EU countries. However, the …

This paper investigates the potential for a further increase in trade between the fifteen old EU members and the twelve … level of the EU-15 in accordance with the Acquis Communautaire. To this aim we estimate a gravity model applying both static … towards EU standards. -- European integration ; institutions ; gravity model ; trade potential …