Polish Education After the EU Accession

Determinants of Profitability of Polish Rural Micro-Enterprises at the Time of EU Accession*

rural micro-enterprises are an important factor in sustainable rural development in post-transitional Eastern Europe. This paper deals with determining the key factors influencing profitability in rural micro-enterprises in Poland. The research design was based on a questionnaire survey of 300 rural micro-enterprises in the food-processing sector in rich and poor Polish provinces. The analysis ...

Vii. Enhancing Income Convergence in Central Europe after Eu Accession

Surviving Eu Accession: the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Shipbuilders

The Croatian shipbuilding industry is busy with record orderbooks. It is true to say, however, that the only constant in life is change and significant changes are facing the industry in the near future. Not least of these will be Croatia’s accession to the EU. Elimination of subsidies and increasing prosperity will inevitably lead to an imperative to improve performance. This paper reviews the...

FDI Penetration and Net Trade in the EU Accession Countries

This paper explores the link between foreign direct investment and trade in a panel of four countries that will accede to the European Union in 2004: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovenia. We augment standard demand-side export and import equations with a measure of FDI penetration. We compare results based on a panel mean-group estimator with a fixed-effects panel model that allows ...

Prospective Trade in the EU Accession and Associated Countries

Examining the trade prospects for the new European Union (EU) member states and the EU associated partner countries is an important issue in the context of European eastward enlargement and greater economic integration with its immediate neighbours. An out-ofsample approach to projecting trade volumes for twenty countries of interest is adopted using a gravity equation for a panel data set of b...