Intro -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter I -- Background on the European Union -- 1.1 The road to European unity -- 1.1.1 The idea for a United Europe -- 1.1.2 The Steps toward the European Community -- 1.1.3 Attempts toward a deeper integration -- 1.1.4 The European Community Deepening...

This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the immanent process of European Union Enlargement. The issues analyzed range from modelling and analyzing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic...