-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real …This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low … structure. The change in the outsourcing intensity since 1993 alone acounts for a long-run increase of about 3.3% in the real …

We compare the convergence with German monetary policy of the Balkan and Mediterranean country candidates for EU … membership with that of countries that have recently joined the EU. Significant linkages exist between German base money stock … and that of recent members of the EU; the same holds true for some of the Mediterranean region candidates for EU …

States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan … both NMS and (less so) the NIS towards the West. The recent trade developments on EU?NIS borders indicate a closer trade … EU exports is made up of manufacturing products. By contrast, EU imports from the NMS and NIS display a much more …

The paper discusses similarities and differences between past EU binding internal liberalization "across the board" in … Uruguay Round. The paper proposes a number of measures successfully applied in the EU to give APEC’s liberalization more …

This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … economic development between the Central and Eastern European countries and the EU. The paper argues that the acceding …