Showing 1 - 10 of 32,692
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002186334
Despite significant economic reforms in many Southern Mediterranean EU neighbour countries, their growth performance has on average been subdued. This study analyses the differences in growth performance and macroeconomic stability across Mediterranean countries, to draw lessons for the future....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009528811
Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571054
This paper, presenting a wide range of issues related to the role of Turkey in the Mediterranean energy context, aims … to provide a comprehensive framework of understanding of the growing strategic relevance of Turkey for both the European … Union and the overall Euro-Mediterranean region. In particular, the paper focuses on the EU-Turkey energy relations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628098
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546806
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
I develop an index for economic integration accounting for its gradual and bilateral nature: the Gradual And Bilateral Integration (GABI) index. The graduality captures differences in the depth and path of five stages in economic integration and is an improvement over the use of binary dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699523
Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free movement of goods and factors of production and a common currency linked much of Europe. Meanwhile, effective economic integration agreements were absent from Asia, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137064
Sweden became a member of the European Union (EU) in 1995. Since then, she has been integrated into the EU's internal market under the Single Market Programme (SMP). Before Sweden's accession to the EU, she was a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) signed with the EU in 1972....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219630