Cross Border Economic Convergence and EU Integration Process

Process model of integration in cross - border mergers and acquisitions

Despite the increasing frequency of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, it is accepted that the rate of success in the post-merger phase remains poor; the main reason for this is widely accepted to be the unsuccessful cultural integration of the two firms involved. Driven by limited time to obtain results, managers from the headquarters (of the acquiring firm) seek to change the culture of t...

Economic Integration, Similarity and Convergence in the Eu and Ceecs Trade Structures

In this paper we look at similarity and convergence between the EU and four of the so-called ”accession countries” of Central and Eastern Europe in terms of trade patterns. We analyse the trade patterns of the Central and Eastern European countries by comparing them to those of the current members of the EU. In particular, this paper focuses on countries’ specialization as suppliers for the EU ...

Cross-Border Migration, Employment and Economic Growth

Cross-border sourcing and outward processing in EU manufacturing

With the help of a standard 2 × 2 trade model, we develop several hypotheses on the effects of cross-border sourcing on skill intensity in production. The focus is on cross-border sourcing of low-skill-intensive components of exports and import-competing products. We test the aforementioned hypotheses with panel data for manufacturing in the European Union (EU). We find that outward processing ...

An Economic Perspective of Cross-Border Telecommuting