The study discusses the development of the regional differences and the integration processes in EU in accordance with the changes of the regional specialization and the industrial concentration – theoretical and empirical aspect. The development of these processes in Bulgaria is analyzed in...

It is pointed out that integration processes in economic regional unions are deepening and as a result of them a number of unions transfer from inferior into superior ones. The process of establishing new free trade zones is accelerated. Some of them will unite countries from different...

A classification is offered of the main economic costs and benefits of the EU enlargement for Bulgaria, the Central and Eastern European Countries and the old EU members. The costs and benefits are classified according to the time horizon (short and long term), character (economic, political,...

The nature of logistics is clarified in the context of the evolutionary process, characterising its development in the last three decades. The main claim is that the increasing role of logistics in shaping the competitive advantages of the firms, which in the conditions of dynamically changing,...

The pre-history of EU integration is presented briefly: at the first stage before 1989, when the Hungarian strategy opted for integration with the international financial institutions, and post 1989. The issues of implementing the requirements that are the precondition to become a successful EU...

In this paper we address the question of the impact of permitting free migration in an enlarged trading bloc. We estimate two sectoral equations for trade flows and real wages of three regional blocs of the enlarged EU that we defined as North (wealthiest EU), South (Greece, Portugal and Spain)...

The aim of this paper is to support a methodology proposal for the analysis of the impact on commercial globalization trend in relation to the internationalization of Mexicans firms. Also this paper analyzes the advantage the Mexican firms took in the liberalization agenda of the Mexican...

Evidence exists that global natural gas markets have become more integrated over time. One possible explanation for this increased level of integration is that increased liquefied natural gas trade has increased the opportunity for price arbitrage by decreasing transport costs. If this...

Well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not necessarily increase market access, while rules that are guaranteed to increase market access will not necessarily increase welfare. The present paper proposes a new set of tariff reforms that can achieve both...

We develop a model of risk sharing in which agents can pool their consumption risks in both national and local markets and then smooth the remaining consumption fluctuations with credit markets. Estimating the model with a unique dataset on Chinese cities, we find that the participation rate in...