In part I of this paper, we have presented a general treatment of the welfare effect of an eastern EU enlargement on incumbent countries. Part II now takes a closer look at the Austrian case. We first present a few descriptive statistics on the role that east-west trade, as well as the pertinent...

This paper addresses the impact of Multilateral Trade Liberalisation (MTL) on the preferential tariffs granted by the United States. For a given MFN tariff, we model the preferential tariff with a simple linear functional form. We take MTL of the US as known to the world by the end of Uruguay...

In this paper, we address the impact of multilateral trade liberalisation (MTL) on the preferential tariffs granted by the EU, which is one of the largest traders and one of the biggest contributors to MTL. We empirically address two important questions. First, if the MFN tariff for a product is...

Unternehmenszusammenschlüsse stellen insbesondere nach der Finanzkrise wieder eine interessante Wachstumsoption für Unternehmen dar. Da in einem Unternehmenszusammenschluss stets unterschiedliche Unternehmenskulturen aufeinanderprallen, führen damit einhergehende Veränderungen meist zu einem...