The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet empirical evidence on the possible magnitudes is still scarce. This paper uses four different datasets to estimate the determinants of international asset holdings and trade...

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia remained. In view of this development, history seems...

Der vorliegende Tagungsbericht gibt den Verlauf einer am 15.Dezember.1999 von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin abgehaltenen Veranstaltung zu dem Thema "Ökonomische Konsequenzen der EU-Osterweiterung" wieder. Anhand von Einzelbeiträgen wird deutlich, dass eine EU-Erweiterung...