Aim/purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze regional trade integration of 10 Central and Eastern Europe … countries (CEE-10) during the 2004-2018 period, identify regional- and country-level integration patterns and attribute them to … integration indicators to data on CEE-10 trade in goods and conducted a review of empirical studies investigating trade …

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 …

financial liberalization and integration of Baltic and Central European Countries (BCECs) since the 1990s. It investigates the … hypotheses that the type of financial integration chosen by the BCECs played an important role in enabling liberalization to …

million citizens of eleven Central and Eastern European countries into the EU. We examine country- and regional-level data on … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of …% Croats, and Bulgarians lived in another EU country. The quantitative analysis shows that migration contributed positively to …

The EU enlargement is a politico-economic shock that could affect interpersonal and institutional trust in the … trust's synchronizing role. In this paper, I estimate the probability of trust following the 2004 EU enlargement for people … suggest that the probability of trust increases after the 2004 EU enlargement for those with high probability of trust before …

tested in the context of unsolved conflicts which characterised the security environment in the East European neighbourhood … area. We set out to analyse the main strategies, security policies and tools used by the EU in relationship with the …

This study examines whether the CEECs' financial market development can explain the EU FDI in the CEECs during 1994 … sector reforms undertaken before the CEECs' EU accession. Second, the stock market size had a positive effect in 1997 …-2004. This is due to the fact that the EU membership announcement facilitated deeper stock market integration. Third, the higher …

This study examines whether the CEECs' financial market development can explain the EU FDI in the CEECs during 1994 … sector reforms undertaken before the CEECs' EU accession. Second, the stock market size had a positive effect in 1997 …-2004. This is due to the fact that the EU membership announcement facilitated deeper stock market integration. Third, the higher …

, academics and practitioners in European and EU politics, EU socio-economic governance, EU social policy, European integration …"This book investigates to what extent and how the European Semester impacts on national employment policy in four EU … between EU preferences, exemplified by the yearly list of country-specific recommendations, and national policy responses to …