Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...

An eastern Enlargement of the EU, from an incumbent country point of view, involves a fiscal burden from extending Union agricultural and cohesion plicies to new members, coupled with potential gains as well as adjustment problems deriving from an extended customs union and a larger single...

In part I of this paper, we have presented a general treatment of the welfare effect of an eastern EU enlargement on incumbent countries. Part II now takes a closer look at the Austrian case. We first present a few descriptive statistics on the role that east-west trade, as well as the pertinent...

Der Mangel an Risikokapital bremst Investitionen und nachhaltiges Wachstum und beeinträchtigt die Krisenrobustheit der Unternehmen und die gesamtwirtschaftliche Stabilität. Neue und flexiblere Rechtsformen für die Beteiligungsfinanzierung können die Kapitalaufbringung der...