This paper shows the role of the theories of imperfect competition and industrial organization for analyzing the channels through which the removal of the European Community's internal market barriers may result in economic gains, and for designing sensible accompanying policies. Some of the...

The paper analyses the proposal to create a hard core of EU countries committed to deeper and faster integration by studying the economic structure of the proposed grouping. It is divided into two parts. The first examines the relative weight and structural characteristics of the five potential...