The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the … international competitiveness of the Central and Eastern European countries …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …

find that the effect of the 2004 EU enlargement has been positive for both intermediate and final goods trade, and it is in …This paper focuses on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union to the East and treats it as a natural experiment to …

stands for is discussed. The EU adopted enlargement policies to include many states in the emerging markets of CEE. It …-States after the demise of communism in Central-Eastern Europe, all transitional countries applied for EU membership and the EU … countries of Central and Eastern Europe embarked on since the 1990s. This chapter details the EU’s democratisation agenda, how …