EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)
The project analyses the economic and institutional development of Eastern European countries which are not members of the European Union.An EU project conducted in cooperation with partners in 11 countries under the coordination of CASE, Warsaw. Participants Fredrik Wilhelmsson, NUPI/School of Economics and Management, Lund University, until 1 February 2009.
The ENEPO project seeks to examine different aspects of the European Union’s relations with its neighbours to the east (the so-called “eastern neighbourhood”). Primarily, it focuses on the economic features of an EU eastern neighbourhood such as:
Perspectives and conditions for closing the development gap between the CIS and the enlarged EU.
CIS–EU trade relations including the energy sector.
Capital flows and FDI; investment climate in recipient countries.
The potential role of labour migration and its social consequences; cooperation in the area of justice, security and freedom.
Institutional harmonisation of CIS economies with EU standards and the role of the EU in leveraging this.
In particular, the project will analyse the links between the four basic market freedoms – i.e. free movement of goods, services, capital and people – and various incentives which can speed up economic and institutional development in CIS countries and their integration with the enlarged EU.
External published papers:
East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe [2009]
CASE Network Studies and Analyses no. 379 by Arne Melchior
Regional Inequality and Convergence in Europe, 1995-2005 [2008]
CASE Network Studies and Analyses no. 374 by Arne Melchior
Funding
The European Commission and The Norwegian Research Council
- Wilhelmsson, Fredrik (2009). Effects of the EU Enlargement on Income Convergence in the Eastern Border Regions. NUPI Working Paper: 758. 25 pages. This paper analyses the effect of the EU enlargement process on income convergence among regions in the EU and in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU.
- Melchior, Arne (2009). Europe's recent transition: growth, convergence and regional disparities. CASE Network E-briefs, 30. June
- Melchior, Arne (2008). Regional Inequality and Convergence in Europe, 1995–2005. NUPI Working Paper: 748. 39 pages. The paper presents new results on within-country regional inequality in per capita income for 36 countries during 1995-2005; focusing on Europe but with some non-European countries included for comparison.
- Melchior, Arne (2008). European Integration and Domestic Regions: A Numerical Simulation Analysis. NUPI Working Paper: 749. 60 pages. This paper uses large-scale model simulation in order to derive theoretical predictions about how international integration affects regional inequality both across and within nations.
- Melchior, Arne (2008). East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe. NUPI Working Paper: 750. 52 pages. Growth in European regions has a distinct pattern during 1995-2006, with higher growth to the west and east of a longitude passing through Germany and Italy. The paper shows how European integration may explain this pattern.