This chapter looks into the impact of EU membership on the carbon intensity of EU11 economies since joining the EU. EU … membership boosted foreign trade and FDI, leading to a rapid re-industrialization of EU11 and making them the fastest converging … group of upper-middle-income countries in the world. Nevertheless, EU11 economies maintained their previously established …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of … FTEs. The desire to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU spurred major reform waves and led to the introduction of … institutions. The Washington institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Following the start of the EU …

1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a … -- 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 -- 5. How the European Union made Poland European Again -- 6. Transformation of the … financing and foreign trade model of the Hungarian economy after EU accession -- 7. Macroeconomic trends in the Baltic States …

1.Introduction -- 2.The economic impact of Single Market membership on the EU enlargement countries -- 3. FDI as force … of convergence in the CESEE countries -- 4.The impact of EU cohesion funds on macroeconomic development in the Visegrad … countries after the 2008-2009 financial crisis -- 5. The impact of the EU Cohesion policy spending: a model-based assessment …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the … EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very rapid introduction of best-practice institutions. Although social … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …

The EU member states in CESEE have converged relatively rapidly to the global frontier, some even during the recent … numbers also do so. EU membership has and will in the future potentially help convergence through several private and public … channels, but in itself EU membership is not a guarantee for continued convergence. Reforms will be needed to utilise this …