Fuchs, Michaela; Wohlrabe, Klaus - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2005
The objective of this paper is to investigate the trade potential of the fifteen old EU countries with the ten new … members having joined on May 1st, 2004. Our focus lies not so much on the integration process already having taken place, but … resulting not from the formal accession to the EU, but rather from the successive alignment of the new members´ institutional …