This paper highlights the economic meaning of the size of the state for members of the European Union, thereby making the economic success of EU states statistically tangible. Firstly, we show in descriptive illustrations that the theoretically expected characteristics of small countries clearly...

Das vorliegende Buch ist eine anspruchsvolle Sammlung von Beiträgen zum Thema "Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen", die sowohl in aktuelle Fragestellungen als auch in den State of the Art dieses Forschungsgebietes Einblicke gewährt. Die Autoren wollen mit diesem Werk dem Ökonomen Dieter...

The concept of European integration is often investigated in scientific papers and political debates, a uniform definition of this concept does not exist, however. Thereby, different steps and processes of European integration are hardly quantifiable. Moreover, it is hardly ever discussed that...