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Author-Name: Kóczy László Á. 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Strategic Aspects of the 1995 and 2004 EU Enlargements
Abstract: We discuss the two latest enlargements of the EU. While the 1995 entrants are by now fully integrated, the 2004 entrants will ``enjoy'''' a secondary status for a number of years. We attribute this difference to the fact that unlike the former EFTA members joining in 1995, the 2004 entrants formed a group with heterogenous interests, one that lacked the same strong internal economic ties. Not being able to act as a unified block they had a considerably weaker bargaining position. We support our arguments by qualitative results from a simple model, a dynamic partition function game based on Yi (1997) and Morelli and Penelle (1997).
Keywords: Strategy; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2005
Number: 043
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