a significant step towards an attempted re-integration of the FSU – even more so if Ukraine were also to join. There are … considerations – provide some economic rationale for closer trade integration. Our difference-in-difference gravity-based estimates …

Yurchyshyn and Kateryna Markevych; pp. 19-26) Keywords transition, integration, economic policy Countries covered Ukraine Topics …

Macroeconomic Analysis, Forecasts and Policy Vertical integration of trade with China (by R. Stöllinger; pp. 9-13) Keywords trade …, integration Countries covered China, EU-27 Topics International Trade and Competitiveness FDI-related profits in the EU do host …

policies for MENA and CESEE (by Vladimir Gligorov; pp. 10-12) Keywords transition, economic systems, integration Countries …

. Under growing integration into the European Union, CEEC growth rates seem to converge to the low rates prevailing in the …

system of the euro area? (by Olga Pindyuk; pp. 11-13) Keywords banking system, integration, fragmentation Countries covered …

The process of European Union (EU) integration proceeds from economic to political integration. The economic … integration itself proceeds from trade to financial to complete market integration. The sustainability of the process depends on … some causal relation existing between economic and political integration. This causality is captured, in this paper, in the …

disappointment for Ukraine, which - unlike Russia - considers integration into the EU structures and even EU membership as its … ultimate goal. In fact, in a number of important respects, Ukraine's relations and economic integration with the EU are even … balanced economic integration with both Russia and Ukraine simultaneously, thus avoiding a costly disruption of trade links …

terms of development and in terms of intra-regional and inter?regional integration. GDP per capita is low on average, but it … investments shows the same direction. Therefore, economic integration with the EU is all but inevitable. The labour markets … other problems with the labour markets that have to be dealt with through restructuring. Prospects for EU integration are …