The international intellectual property regime has been heralded by its supporters as the key that would open the door to technological advancement in developing countries. So far, in Central and Eastern Europe it has failed to deliver on this promise, especially with respect to the software...

This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...