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Looking back, looking forward : Central and Eastern Europe 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Grieveson, Richard; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche - 2019
To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this paper aims to assess developments in Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) over the past three decades, and to look forward to what the next 30 years might bring. First, we measure the convergence of per capita income, wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122144
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Poland's membership in the European Union : an analysis with a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model
Piazolo, Daniel - 2000
This paper presents a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for Poland's integration into the European Union (EU) that allows for quantification of income and welfare effects stemming from tariff reduction, border-cost reduction, reduction of technical barriers to trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755919
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Eastern Europe between transition and accession : an analysis of reform requirements
Piazolo, Daniel - 2000
This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … transition countries still have substantial reform tasks ahead of them and that the expanding EU membership requires also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472269
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Lessons of the 1999 Abolition of intra-EU duty free sales for Eastern European EU candidates
Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2002
At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514091
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Does joining the EU make you happy? : evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris - 2016
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania's modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449769
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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles : The Experience of Countries in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe
Vinhas de Souza, Lucio Vinhas - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991348
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Implications of Emu for Exchange Rate Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Kopits, George - 2021
In view of the requirements of Stage 2 of European Monetary Union (EMU) for accession to the European Union, this paper examines the desirability for, and the ability of, the lead candidates in Central and Eastern Europe to participate in the new exchange rate mechanism (ERM2) and eventually in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317738
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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2021
The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … structural change in the transition economies and simulate the path of adjustment from central planning. We then analyse data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320021
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EU Integration of Transition Countries : Overlap of Requisites and the Remaining Tasks
Piazolo, Daniel - 2003
Transition and reorientation towards Western Europe have been the two decisive challenges for the Central and Eastern … European countries (CEECs) since 1989. Whereas in the early 1990s the transition from the central planning system to a market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140665
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Eastern Europe between Transition and Accession : An Analysis of Reform Requirements
Piazolo, Daniel - 2000
This paper examines the transition process within Eastern Europe and the integration process with the EU and shows that … the requirements for the transition towards a market economy overlap with the requirements for EU accession. Furthermore … transition countries still have substantial reform tasks ahead of them and that the expanding EU membership requires also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149353