The issues of privatization (and sometimes deregulation) have been reviewed in a large literature on the various aspects of privatization, that has emphasized the potential efficiency gains. Hence, the goal of this paper is twofold: First to provide some theoretical reasoning why privatization...

With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According to the Copenhagen criteria, the CEEC candidate countries have to adopt the former via the acquis...

Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einige ausgewählte Aspekte der Bemühungen der Türkei zur Integration mit der Europäischen Union aus ökonomischer Sicht darstellen. Die nunmehr Jahrzehnte andauernden Gespräche über eine Vollmitgliedschaft der Türkei in der EWG bzw. EU wurden durch die...