Starting on 1st of May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …

’s accession to the European Union. All five factors were critically important, but without accession to the EU, Poland's economic …

Almost all non-EU CESEE countries have converged with Western Europe over the past three decades. However, the pace of … convergence has been mixed. For non-EU CESEE countries as a whole, convergence has generally developed at a slower pace than for … EU member states in the region.Econometrically, we find that the poorest countries tended to convergence more quickly …