The concept of European integration is often investigated in scientific papers and political debates, a uniform definition of this concept does not exist, however. Thereby, different steps and processes of European integration are hardly quantifiable. Moreover, it is hardly ever discussed that...

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...

Does European economic integration create more inequality between domestic regions, or is the opposite true? We show that a general answer to this question does not exist, and that the outcome depends on the liberalization scenario. In order to examine the impact of European and international...

We estimate the determinants of labor productivity growth in 8 new European Union (EU) member states that joined the Union in 2004. Our focus is on the impact of globalization and EU integration efforts on labor productivity growth. Previous studies test the impact of trade using either exports...

The adoption of a new instrument of governance in the EU - the open-method-of-coordination - has renewed the notion of convergence/divergence across EU member states. This paper examines the role of European integration in shaping and changing social welfare systems and investigates whether...

The cross-country regression relating the relative price level to the relative GDP level is significant and stable. But there is no shorter-term trade-off between fast real convergence and low inflation. Such a tradeoff characterises the dynamic process moving the economy along the regression...

This paper analyzes the main characteristics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) accession and its focus on integration of B&H to the European Union (EU). The main aim is to show major elements of B & H integration into EU as a potential candidate state. The paper consists of brief relationship...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the process of liberalisation of trade in services in the European Union. Even though the history of this process is quite long, the effects are less than moderate. Intra-EU trade in services accounts for 20% of its total trade, which is also the world average,...

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...