Central European EU accession and Latin American integration: Mutual lessons in macroeconomic policy design

Growth, integration, and macroeconomic policy design: Some lessons for Latin America

The paper examines government spending that is financed by taxes that distort output and by the inflation tax. High inflation and low output are the consequence of fiscal ambitions that exceed the current capacity of the economy to support. Supply-side growth alleviates this tension, allowing lower inflation, lower tax distortions, and higher output. In the presence of commitment problems, reso...

Merger Control and Competition Policy in Central East Europe in view of EU Accession

1 Introduction This study reviews competition policy in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. The general finding is that progress has been made in the course of accession negotiations with the European Union (EU). The countries under review follow the EU model of legislation, which itself is based on the German tradition of competition policy. Specific circumstances of transition from communi...

the role of russia in transmission of energy from central asia and caucuses to european union

پس ازفروپاشی شوروی،رشد منابع نفت و گاز، آسیای میانه و قفقاز را در یک بازی ژئوپلتیکی انرژی قرار داده است. با در نظر گرفتن این منابع هیدروکربنی، این منطقه به یک میدانجنگ و رقابت تجاری برای بازی های ژئوپلتیکی قدرت های بزرگ جهانی تبدیل شده است. روسیه منطقه را به عنوان حیات خلوت خود تلقی نموده و علاقمند به حفظ حضورش می باشد تا همانند گذشته گاز طبیعی را به وسیله خط لوله مرکزی دریافت و به عنوان یک واس...

Vii. Enhancing Income Convergence in Central Europe after Eu Accession

The Agricultural Policy of the Eu and Hungarian Agriculture in Preparation for Eu Accession

Theoretical considerations in connection with state intervention first appeared in American economics literature. These diffused to Europe, where they became the basis for the practice of the protectionist agricultural policy of the EEC after World War II. It is a wellknown fact that this agricultural policy was successful in practice for two decades, but with time it created more and more prob...