Croatian Accession to the European Union: Institutional Challenges [PDF]
This paper analyses three issues that could potentially affect macroeconomic stability and hence the speed of Croatia’s accession to the European Union (EU): (i) Can the economy continue to rely on domestic demand as the main source of growth or is ...
Dubravko Mihaljek, Katarina Ott
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Gradualism and Uncertainty in International Union Formation [PDF]
This paper introduces a new theoretical framework of international unions qua coalitions of countries adopting a common policy and common supranational institutions.
Nikitas Konstantinidis
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The EU’s Open Arms and Small States
The EU has fostered lasting peace and prosperity in Europe since World War II and welcomed formerly autocratic countries back into the European fold.
Thorvaldur Gylfason
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The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000 [PDF]
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950.
Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo
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Brexit as a result of internal contradictions in the ECONOMY OF THE European Union
The European Union (EU) at the present stage tests the period of serious social and economic transformations. Further expansion of the EU goes to an aggravation of internal contradictions between member countries.
E. Smirnov
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European Economic Crisis: Ireland in Comparative Perspective [PDF]
The current economic crisis has hit all European countries hard, but some are much more severely affected others. The problems manifest in European peripheral countries, especially Ireland, Spain, and Greece, have roots in domestic policy mistakes ...
Niamh Hardiman, Sebastian Dellepiane
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Brexit as a result of internal contradictions in the ECONOMY OF THE European Union
The European Union (EU) at the present stage tests the period of serious social and economic transformations. Further expansion of the EU goes to an aggravation of internal contradictions between member countries.
E. Smirnov
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POSITIONS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION MEMBER STATES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY AT THE PRESENT STAGE
Two years later after formation of the Eurasian economic union many European and American economists popularizing an image of the integration union as politized with weak dynamics of development and weak economic prospects. Firstly, not all member states
K. Bagdasaryan
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Effects of innovation diffusion on the development level for some European regions in the expansion period of the European Union [PDF]
It is argued that innovation diffusion, in other words the movement of the new ideas or articrafts within an area over a number of time periods could become widespread once introduced in the area.
Gündüz Atalik, Seda Kundak
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POSITIONS OF EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION MEMBER STATES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY AT THE PRESENT STAGE
Two years later after formation of the Eurasian economic union many European and American economists popularizing an image of the integration union as politized with weak dynamics of development and weak economic prospects. Firstly, not all member states
K. Bagdasaryan
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