EC4333 Lecture 10 Enlargement and Political Economy of Enlargement
Time: 1.5 Hours
Aims
To introduce students to the institutional, legal and political context of enlargement
To preview and examine the fifth enlargement's likely effects
To examine the preconditions for reform
To develop a simple model of development, trade policy, and mobility
Introduction
Over the weeks we've seen a series of increasingly analytical approaches to exploring European integration. This week we'll look at putting two approaches together: a descriptive, political economy framework for describing the system as a whole, and an analytical model describing the potential effects of trade policy on integration for the accession countries.
Lecture Slides
Handout. (Right click to download)
Further Reading/Viewing
Antonis Adam and Thomas Moutos, The Political Economy of EU Enlargement: Or, Why Japan is not a Candidate Country?
Friedrich Heinemann, The political economy of EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice
Baldwin, Richard, Joe Francois, and Richard Portes, 1997, The costs and benefits of EU enlargement to the East, Economic Policy 24, 125-176,
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Catherine Drew and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, EU Enlargement in 2007: No Warm Welcome for Labor Migrants