Tax Revenues of Post - Communist E.U. Member Countries

Duration of trade of former communist countries at the EU

The article analyses the duration of exports of individual products of former communist countries to the enlarged European Union (EU25) employing survival analysis. The results show that the duration of trade differs across EU10 and EU15 markets, for the majority of countries the length of trade is higher in EU10 markets than in the EU15 markets. The estimations suggest that differentiated prod...

Transitional Winners and Losers: Attitudes Toward EU Membership in Post-Communist Countries

 Joshua A. Tucker is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, 322 Bendheim Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 ([email protected]). Alexander C. Pacek is Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 ([email protected]). Adam J. Berinsky is Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, 41 Corwin H...

Mental health in post-communist countries.

Massive political, economic, and social changes in eastern and central Europe since the 1990s have created conditions of instability and stress, which are associated with troubling trends in health. Severe economic constraints after the collapse of the former Soviet Union followed by patchy economic growth have contributed to marked inequalities in income and social upheaval. These changes have...

Public Support for Integration in the Newly Enlarged EU: Exploring Differences Between Former Communist Countries and Established Member States

Time Series Modelling of Daily Tax Revenues

We provide a detailed discussion of the time series modelling of daily tax revenues. The main feature of daily tax revenue series is the pattern within calendar months. Standard seasonal time series techniques cannot be used since the number of banking days per calendar month varies and because there are two levels of seasonality: between months and within months. We start the analysis with a p...