Dieser Beitrag stellt nach einem theoretischen Überblick über die Integration von Wirtschaftsräumen empirische Arbeiten zu den makroökonomischen Auswirkungen der EU-Osterweiterung vor. Aufgrund der vier konstituierenden Grundfreiheiten der Europäischen Union wird es mit der Aufnahme der...

The paper discusses the decisions on the CAP in the context of the Berlin summit. In a rather broad perspective the agricultural sectoral and related objectives are analyzed for their consistency and compatability with higher ranking societal objectives. The policies' allocational and...

This paper explores the economic consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with countries from Central and Eastern Europe. We focus on integration aspects that go beyond the reduction of formal trade barriers, namely accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. The...

Based on a panel data model this paper investigates whether the effects of fiscal policy on national saving in Europe have changed after the Maastricht Treaty came into force. Recently Giavazzi, Jappelli and Pagano (2000) found evidence that national saving responds nonlinearly to fiscal policy...