INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ON FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Integration Effects and Trade Barriers: Does European Economic Integration affect Foreign Direct Investment?

This paper analyzes the net effect of integration, as a measure of changes in trade barriers, on reducing the border effects between European countries. In order to study this contribution, we examine the size of home bias in the market for goods among 18 European countries over the period 1995-2006. The construction of a gravity model, using disaggregated data for 23 sectors, allowed us to com...

Foreign direct investment and economic integration

Economic Integration and the Foreign Exchange

This paper demonstrates effects of economic convergence processes on the foreign exchange behaviour in a monetary modelling approach. Since the exchange rate represents the relative price of two currencies, commonness of stochastic trends between the fundamental determinants of supply and demand of the underlying monies restricts exchange rate movements to transitory fluctuations. In the spirit...

Influence of corruption on economic growth rate and foreign investments

In order to investigate whether government regulations against corruption can affect the economic growth of a country, we analyze the dependence between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth rates and changes in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). For the period 1999-2004 on average for all countries in the world, we find that an increase of CPI by one unit leads to an increase of ...