Industrial Competitiveness and Restructuring in Enlarged Europe: How Accession Countries Catch Up and Integrate in the European Union (Studies in Economic Transition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230521568 ISBN 13: 9780230521568

Verlag: Palgrave Schol, Print UK, 2007

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After a decade of preparation, a group of eight transition countries joined the European Union in May 2004. The manufacturing sector in these countries was characterized by old technology, low efficiency, and distorted structures dominated by heavy and extractive industries - thus the impact of accession on individual industries was uncertain and many observers had serious concerns about the ability of the manufacturing sector to survive competition in the enlarged market. This book analyses the factors influencing changes in industrial competitiveness in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in the pre-accession period. It demonstrates how industrial restructuring, government policies, trade specialization, and networking contribute to the catching up process and the integration of accession countries in the EU market. The book uses original datasets and enterprise surveys to provide empirical evidence on how some industries have expanded their share of the EU market and caught up with their competitors from the more advanced older member states. The book ends with a discussion of the policy implications of the process of enlargement for the accession countries, the EU and the older member states.

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DORA BORBÉLY Economic Research Department, DekaBank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany MICHAEL BRANDMEIER Senior Economist, Institute for Economic Policy Research, Division of Money and Banking, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany ERJON LUCI Economist, World Bank, Tirana, Albania DARKO HAJDUKOVIC Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London; Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK IGA MAGDA Economist, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research), Poland KRZYSZTOF MARCZEWSKI Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Poland; Deputy Director for Scientific Research, Foreign Trade Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland MARY O'DONNELL Lecturer in Economics, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland KRZYSZTOF SZCZYGIELSKI Researcher, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research), Warsaw, Poland RICHARD WOODWARD Economist, CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research); Lecturer, Management School, Edinburgh University, UK PIOTR WÓJCIK Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, Poland

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Schol, Print UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230521568
• ISBN 13: 9780230521568
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Wziatek-Kubiak Anna, Hashi Iraj, Welfens Paul J.
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