The debate surrounding EMU enlargement is usually focused on the policy choices prior to EU accession, on Maastricht criteria and ERM-II, and on the existence of an optimum currency area between accession counties and the Euro Area. This paper reviews these issues from Estonia's perspective....

The paper examines inter-regional insurance and redistribution of Russia's fiscal system from 1995 to 2007. We use non-parametric methods for robustness and to tackle econometric problems of endogeneity and poolability. We will also use several specifications of variables. We find that the...