After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and … savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …

This paper discusses the eastward enlargement process of the EU in the framework of a simple war of attrition … bargaining game. Both players - the existing EU members and the applicants - benefit from enlargement, yet for the applicants … reform to the acquis is costly, while the EU prefers substantially reformed candidates. A waiting game unfolds. Within this …

After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered … strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to … substitutes. Long-run effects of income growth and public saving are larger in the EU than in the candidate countries, indicating …

This paper argues that the balance between the size of EU incentives and the costs of democratic transformation has … government that had a strong pro-EU identity proved to be a promising facilitator of external democracy promotion efforts. …

I analyze spillover effects from Euro area monetary policy shocks to thirteen EU countries outside the Euro area, i ….e., ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and three Western EU members. The analysis is based on a FAVAR model …