Accession Process

• European Commission, Direcorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Pre-accession economic programme of acceding and candidate countries: overview and assessment, August 2005

• Eichengreen, Barry and Fabio Ghironi (2001), EMU and Enlargement, Boston College WP Working Paper 481

Capital Flows back to top

• Begg, David, Barry Eichengreen, László Halpern, Jürgen von Hagen and Charles Wyplosz (2003) “Sustainable Regimes of Capital Movements in Accession Countries”, Policy Paper 10, CEPR, London, March 2003.

Catching Up back to top

Balassa-Samuelson Debate...

• Kovacs, Mihaly A. (2002) On the Estimated Size of the Balassa-Samuleson Effect in CEC5 countries, Bank of Hungary WP 2002/5

Migration back to top

• Chiuri, Maria Concetta, Giuseppe De Arcangelis, Angela Maria D'Uggento and Giovanni Ferri (2004), Illegal Immigration into Italy: Evidence from a field Survey, LLEE Working Document no.16

  DIW (2001), The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Employment and Labor Markets in the EU member states, pdf.

• Dustman et al. (2003), The impact of EU Enlargment on migration, pdf.

ERM2 back to top

• Contradictionary Currency Crashes in Developing Countries, Transcript of an IMF Economic Forum, Mundell-Fleming Lecture, by Jeffrey A. Frankel (Harvard) and chaired by Raghuram Rajan (Economic Counsellor and Director of Research IMF). November 2004

• Bayoumi, Tamin, Michael Kumhof, Douglas Laxton and Kanda Naknoi, discussant Christopher Erceg (2004), Exchange Rates Regimes, International Linkages and the Macroeconomic Performance of the New Member States. IMF.

• Pathak, Parag and Jean Tirole, discussant Roberto Chang (2004) Pegs, Risk Management and Financial Crises. IMF.

• Natalucci, Fabio and Federico Ravenna (2002), The Road to Adopting the Euro: Monetary Policy and Exchange Rage Regimes in EU Candidate Countries, International Finance Discussion Papers 741. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

• Buiter, W. and C.Grafe (2001) "Central banking and the choice of currency regime in the Accession countries", SUERF Studies.

• The ERM II Nuti, M. (2002) "Introduction to symposium on exchange rate regimes in transition economies: The euroization debate", Economics of Transition, 10, 339-342.

• Coricelli, F. (2002) "Exchange rate policy during transition to the European Monetary Union: The option of euroization", Economies in Transition, pp.405-417.

• Berger, Helge (2002) “The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement”, IMF Working Paper
WP/02/175

Fiscal Policy back to top

• European Commission - Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs - 2005 Fiscal notifications of acceding and candidate countries: overview and assessment. August 2005