This paper seeks to analyse the impact of European Union enlargement on accession countries and current EU as a whole, using a Computable General Equilibrium Model. Our aim is to provide an assessment of the impact of enlargement on the size and efficiency of firms and the varieties of products...

The aim of this contribution is a comparative analysis of the challenges Poland and Greece (and more broadly - CEE-10 and GIPS countries) had to face in the past as latecomers to the European Union and are facing now, in the aftermath of the world financial and economic crisis of 2008-09.

At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the 15 member nations. The opponents of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and excise tax revenue of individual countries. In their opinion,...

The European Union (EU) represents a large and highly integrated bloc which contributed 19.4% of global GDP and over 30% of global exports in 2012. As of July 1, 2013 it consists of 28 member states. All of them belong to the customs union and the Single European Market (SEM) in which most...

Eine präzise Darstellung des seit 1989 andauernden Übergangs von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft (sowie von der kommunistischen Diktatur zu Demokratien westlicher Prägung) in Mittel- und Osteuropa würde den Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit sprengen, die nicht den eigentlichen...

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and optimality in comparison with a reference group of the...