We explore the economic implications of Croatia's possible accession to the European Union. We focus on two main changes associated with the EU-membership: accession to the internal European Market and institutional reforms in Croatia triggered by the EU-membership. GDP per capita in Croatia is...

The success of EU project depends of its economic and social cohesion. Unfortunately there are an important delay and much hesitation in official approaching of the concept of economic and social cohesion. A system theory approach is very useful to clarify the core problem of economic and social...

This paper presents a theoretical framework to study the effects of geographical factors on the distribution of industries in the world econmy, which consists of many regions. The geographical feature of each region is summarized by a proximity matrix, whose elements measure the closeness...

This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity. For this purpose we address the link between trade and productivity thanks to knowledge spillovers in a multi-country model. The...

KRATKE S. (1999) Regional integration or fragmentation? The German-Polish border region in a new Europe, Reg. Studies 33 , 631-641. This paper deals with the problems of regional economic integration in the German-Polish border area, focusing on the nature and intensity of cross-border...

The 10 states of Southeast Asia have combined to form the developing world’s most successful and durable regional grouping, the Association of Southeast Asian Na-tions, ASEAN. Economic integration among them is high and increasing. The ambi-tious ASEAN Economic Community is scheduled to take...

It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using the Feldstein–Horioka (FH) approach, none of them to the best of our...

In this paper, we have sought to recognize the Islamic countries eligible to participate in the early nucleus of economic integration. In other words, our main question is: by using the key international macro-economic variables, which members of OIC have the capacity to actively participate in...

This study examines the impacts of foreign direct investment, regional economic integration, and human capital development on regional income inequality in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Using panel cointegration and causality techniques, the empirical evidence illustrates that...