Western European countries have recently witnessed legislative reforms concerning the set of rules governing the co-operative type of organizations (and, in particular, the producer co-operatives). The most innovative aspect introduced by these reforms seems the possibility for the co-operatives...

The aim of the paper is to compare output fluctuations in Candidate Countries and Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) in the last decade. We assume a dynamic factor model with three additive unobserved components: the output growth for the three main industrial groupings (mining,...

The aim of the paper is to compare output fluctuations in Candidate Countries and Member States of the European Union (EU) in the last decade. We assume a dynamic factor model with three additive unobserved components: the output growth for the three main industrial groupings (mining,...