Greece has applied for membership in the European Communities on June 13, 1975, Portugal on March 28, 1977, and Spain in the same year on July 28. With the treaties signed in the meantime Greece has become the tenth member country since January 1, 1981, while Portugal and Spain have become the...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain about the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...

Der Andenpakt stellt die anspruchsvollste Form der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Entwicklungsländern dar, die bisher initiiert wurde. Sie hat in Lateinamerika wie in anderen Regionen große Hoffnungen geweckt. Nach nur 13 Jahren hat diese Zusammenarbeit im Jahr 1982 ihren jüngsten...

The paper discusses similarities and differences between past EU binding internal liberalization „across the board“ in the industrial sector and present so-called voluntary sectoral liberalization of member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). While both approaches are...