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EU's eastern neighbours: Institutional harmonisation and potential growth bonus
Radziwill, Artur; Smietanka, Paweł - 2009
growth performance and reforms, as well as between reforms and European integration. The paper derives the range of possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430828
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Cost of institutional harmonization in the ENP countries
Dimitrov, Veliko - 2009
This paper analyzes the costs of (partial) institutional harmonization with the EU acquis which countries of the former USSR are expected to conduct under their Partnership and Cooperation Agreements with the EU and European Neighborhood Policy Action Plans. The public sector will have to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430826
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Effects of the EU-enlargement on income convergence in the eastern border regions
Wilhelmsson, Fredrik - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU. The data used is NUTS II regions in the EU and Oblasts' of Russia over the period 1996-2004. The estimation techniques used take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430825
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The global financial crisis: Lessons for European Integration
Dabrowski, Marek - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various challenges facing European integration and the EU institutional … architecture as result of the global financial crisis. The European integration process is not yet complete, both in terms of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430830
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Institutional harmonization and its costs and benefits in the context of EU cooperation with its neighbours: An overview
Kolesnichenko, Anna - 2009
Institutional harmonization is an important part of European integration, and its effects are more far reaching than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430832
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The Rome Treaty at 50: More honoured in the breach than in the observance?
Erixon, Fredrik; Freytag, Andreas; Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007
European cooperation is the contribution to growth and prosperity from economic integration. The common commercial policy that …-European trade is severely distorted by the Common Agricultural Policy. To honour the theme of economic integration manifested in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790233
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On the European Union: Turkey customs union
Togan, Sübidey - 2011
The purpose of the paper is to study the European Union - Turkey customs union (CU) of 1995 covering trade in industrial goods. The customs union decision of 1995 extending to rules and disciplines on various regulatory border and behind-the-border policies covers in particular customs reform,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430868
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Regional inequality and convergence in Europe, 1995 - 2005
Melchior, Arne - 2008
The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison. In 23 of the 36 countries there was a significant increase in regional inequality during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430814
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East-west integration and the economic geography of Europe
Melchior, Arne - 2009
Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in … theoretically and empirically whether European integration as such can explain these developments. Using a numerical simulation … model with 9 countries and 90 regions, theoretical predictions are derived about how various patterns of integration may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430821
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European integration and domestic regions: A numerical simulation analysis
Melchior, Arne - 2009
Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show … order to examine the impact of European and international integration on the regions, the paper develops a numerical … simulation model with nine countries and 90 regions. Eastward extension of European integration is beneficial for old as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430823