Nach der in Kopenhagen beschlossenen EU-Erweiterung zum 1. Mai 2004 stellt sich die Frage, wie sich die Beziehungen zu den westlichen Balkanstaaten (Balkan-5: Albanien, Bosnien und Herzegowina (BiH), Kroatien, die ehemalige jugoslawische Republik Mazedonien, Serbien und Montenegro) und zu den...

With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting...

Based on a newly constructed multi-country input-output table including all European countries, we estimate the economic effects of the EU accession countries entering the "Stabilisation and Association Agreement" (SAA) with the EU and the potential effects of joining the European Single Market...