become an acute space of exhibition of Russia’s interests, on one side, and of the European Union’s, on the other side. As … the frontiers or with the amputation of these ones; Russia’s conquest of the country, taking into account EU … disagreement with its means. That is why, in a short term, Russia can win. But in a medium and long term... …

, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. We investigate foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from 1995 to 2010 to …

, excepting Russia and most post-Yugoslav countries. Despite weak growth in the EU, exports of the accession countries (and of …

The transition countries approach EU enlargement with GDP growth outperforming the 'old' EU. In 2003, Poland's economy … recorded in Serbia and Montenegro. Russia and Ukraine performed very well, registering significant and balanced growth. The … much more essential structural changes in the composition of exports have certainly continued. For Russia, external …

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … positive growth figures recorded by the global economy as a whole. Central and Eastern Europe, together with Russia, Ukraine … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. A challenge to the enlarged Union's (EU …

real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is …

country samples and second, in more detail, with Brazil and Poland. Our results provide strong evidence that Russia … entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …

, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany). By locating the national energy policies in a historical context …