The book contains a selection of papers written by scholars from both Western and Eastern Europe on various aspects of enlarging the European Union by incorporating Central and Eastern European countries. The papers cover a wide spectrum of relevant issues, including growth and convergence, agriculture, money and finance, wages, prices, unemployment and capital and labour mobility. This is the first volume to focus on a quantitative (mainly econometric) approach to the problem of EU enlargement. Techniques applied include: continuous-time convergence modelling, structural...