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This chapter examines the macroeconomic benefits that membership of the Single Market has given to the 11 Baltics, Central and South Eastern European countries that joined the EU after 2004. We find that these EU11 countries have benefitted particularly from membership of the internal market...
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This chapter focuses on the measurement of institutional convergence in the new EU member states and four Southern … institutional convergence. We present a new method which is based on hard micro-level data. Our approach focuses on control of … poor performance of Southern European EU countries and show the considerable differences in institutional convergence …
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This chapter analyzes the sources of Poland's unprecedented economic performance after 1989, when Poland became Europe's and the world's growth champion. I argue that this growth miracle was driven by five fundamental factors, including Poland’s accession to the European Union. All five...
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Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Ausbau des grenzüberschreitenden Verkehrs innerhalb der EU. Trotz jahrelanger Bestrebungen im Bereich des grenzüberschreitenden Verkehrs durch die Verkehrs- und Kohäsionspolitik bestehen nach wie vor in vielen Grenzregionen Herausforderungen in Bezug auf...
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EU cohesion policy supports investment in infrastructure, R&D and human capital in Europe’s poorer regions. This chapter summarises model-based assessments of the potential macro-economic impact of these fiscal transfers using a micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model with...
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The paper focuses on the financial support provided, in terms of both funding schemes as well as actual funds, by the Structural Funds to Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), within the Cohesion Policy Framework. For this purpose, a special report of the European Court of Auditors is...
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This paper addresses the extension of cross-border transport within the EU. Despite the longstanding efforts of transport and cohesion policies to improve cross-border transport, many border regions still face challenges related to transport infrastructure and local public transport; these are...
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Die ESI-Fonds sollen nach den Vorstellungen der EU-Kommission in der inzwischen angelaufenen Förderperiode entlang der gemeinsamen Zielsetzung von innovativem, nachhaltigem und integrativem Wachstum (EU-2020-Strategie) koordiniert werden. Die EU-Kommission hat dazu Verordnungsentwürfe und...
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