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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe

Melchior, Arne - 2009

Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in the spatial distribution of economic activity, with higher growth west and east of a longitude degree through Germany and Italy. In the east, income growth has been accompanied...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208689

Can we use NEG models to predict migration flows? : an example of CEE accession countries

Kancs, D'Artis - 2005

In this paper we develop an analytically solvable and structurally estimable economic geography model and apply it to predict migration flows for the period following the CEE’s integration with the EU. The main innovation of our approach is that it endogenises both explanatory variables and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513081

Inter- and Intra-Industry Linkages as a Determinant of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe

Lefilleur, Julien - 2011

This paper uses an unpublished dataset on disaggregated foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), and is rooted in new economic geography literature. A 10% increase in access to suppliers based in the FDI recipient country or access to the EU15 market for...

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery : The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Brülhart, Marius; Crozet, Matthieu; Koenig, Pamina - 2010

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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Eastern Enlargement of the EU : A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and singlemarket-induced migration from new to present...

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Agglomeration and growth : evidence from the regions of Central and Eastern Europe

Vogel, Johanna - 2012 - This version: May 2012

This paper examines the empirical relationship between agglomeration and economic growth for a panel of 48 Central and … Eastern European regions from 1995 to 2006. By agglomeration, we mean the within-regional concentration of aggregate economic … for endogeneity and spatial dependence. Our empirical analysis provides evidence of a positive effect of agglomeration as …

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Migration and trade : theory with an application to the Eastern-Western European integration

Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2009

The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country model of inter- and intra-industry trade to a rich environment featuring technological differences, skill...

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Bright past, shady future? : past and potential future export performance of CEE countries in a comparative perspective

Damijan, Jože P.; Kostevc, Črt; Rojec, Matija - 2013

In this paper we examine the reasons behind the remarkable export performance of transition economies in the last two decades. Following Redding and Venables (2004, 2004a) and Fugazza (2004), we decompose export performance into the gains due to the advantageous access to foreign markets and...

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Verification of the new trade theory in EU's trade with CEECs : evidence from panel data 1990 - 1997

Fidrmuc, Jarko - 1999

The new trade theory explains several features of the current development of EU's trade with CEECs better than the Heckscher-Ohlin model. In 1997, CEECs participated in the European economy with levels of intraindustry trade comparable to peripheral EU countries. However, this induced increased...

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The Significance of EU Integration for Transition Countries

Piazolo, Daniel - 2017

For several countries during a transition process economic and institutional reforms are frequently implemented in an inconsistent way. The prospect of EU membership require and facility reforms and thereby leads to increased government credibility. This contribution derives an estimate of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960657

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