firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered … located in participating economies. Enlargement has, instead, two contrasting effects. It improves the accessibility of EU … and enlargement on the competitiveness of European firms. We find that EMU positively affects the competitiveness of firms …

exports. How- ever, as Eastern Enlargement is a case of regional integration, positive welfare and growth effects can only … prices in production will tend to intensify FDI from the EU 15 to the CEECs if there is Eastern Enlargement. FDI can be … May 2005 Richard R Ochmann THE FIRST EU EASTERN ENLARGEMENT. IMPACTS ON THE GERMAN ECONOMY AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS …

transition experience of many Central and Eastern European countries has also allowed them to attract an increasing share of … suggest that foreign direct investment flows are driven by distinct regional production networks (and thus are largely … investment flows to these two regions are complements, substitutes, or independent of each other. Taking into account the role of …

acceded to the EU in the first round of Eastern Enlargement on May 1, 2004 (10 CEECs) were Cy- prus, the Czech Republic … CEECs and EU do not only reflect differ- ences in labour productivity. They are also a function of varying exchange rates … April 2005 Richard R. Ochmann POTENTIAL MIGRATION AFTER THE FIRST ROUND OF EU EASTERN ENLARGEMENT. IMPACTS ON GERMANY …

This paper analyses the economic effects of the eastern enlargement of the EU both on the existing Member States and … conventional trade policy impacts such as custom union formation and common agricultural policy the effects of factor mobility …, induced by institutional changes, are analyzed. The analysis is based on six different scenarios. According to the results EU …

and the process of economic integration was in active progress. It is generally accepted that the enlargement of the EU … within-country divergence, particularly for Central and Eastern European Countries during the enlargement period. Economic … tentative conclusion provides important policy implications not only for European integration, but also for economic integration …

This paper analyses the economic effects of the eastern enlargement of the EU both on the existing Member States and … conventional trade policy impacts such as custom union formation and common agricultural policy the effects of factor mobility …, induced by institutional changes, are analyzed. The analysis is based on six different scenarios. According to the results EU …

section con- cludes. 1) EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, ENLARGEMENT AND THE MISSING COUNTERFACTUAL? Attempts to fit EU enlargement … EU’s Common Agricultural and Regional Policy frameworks – to be dis- cussed in greater detail below – the real … optimal nature of the policy solutions EU institutions and policies provide without analyzing their content or their degree …

economic literature and the explosion in the number of regional agreements among countries has recently stressed the key role … widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the … Eastern European countries (CEEC) with European Union countries. Our econometric analysis based on qualitative choice models …

follows, these ten formerly socialist countries will be labelled CEECs (for Central and Eastern European countries). New EU … from the export and FDI sides, as CEECs has entered in a process of deeper integration with EU-15 7 . Figure 2: EU-15 … are new members of the EU while Bulgaria and Romania are expected to join EU by 2007 1 . As well known, CEECs are by far …