Osteuropa-Institut Regensburg: Department of Economics

Department of conomics, Migration and Integration - Projects

Current projects:

	Economic and Financial Impacts of East-West Trade and FDI

	Migration and Remittances in Central Asia: The Case of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan

	ENRI-East Project: Interplay of European, National and Regional Identities: Nations between States along the Eastern Borders of the European Union

	Social capital, governance, and transformation.

	Sozialmodelle im internationalen Vergleich: Wo stehen die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten?

Finished projects:

	The Balassa-Samuelson-Effect: ‚an Inevitable Fact of Life?’ - an Empirical Analysis of its Foundations on Goods and Labour Markest“.

	TEMPUS Project - New Curricula in Trade Theory and Econometrics

	Langfristige Wachstumsaussichten der ukrainischen Wirtschaft: Potenziale und Barrieren

	Labour Market Effects of International Outsourcing: A Comparative Analysis with Micro-data

	Oberpfalz - Westböhmen: Zwanzig Jahre Grenzöffnung - Fünf Jahre EU-Osterweiterung

	Wirtschafts- und Industriepolitik in Bayern: Lehren für die russischen Regionen

	Fiscal decentralisation and resource-based economies.

	Der Energieverbrauch in den GUS-Staaten: Mythen und Realitäten.

	Analysing operative capability of Uzbek and Kazakh companies by taking into account corporate governance and other factors. An analysis on the basis of a business survey.

	The enlarged EU and the Ukraine. Challenges in terms of migration policy at the new EU border in Eastern Europe.

	Technological convergence by integration? The significance of product diversity for technological progress.

	European integration from below? Eastern European migrants in Germany and the role of transnational spaces in the enlargement of the EU.

	Recent migration from Eastern Europe and the USSR successor states to Germany. Reasons, tendencies, and consequences.

	EU enlargement and monetary union: Risk analysis in terms of economic development and stability.

	Prospects in terms of currency relations between EMU and Eastern European and Central European accession candidates.

	Economic structure and potential for cooperation in Azerbaijan apart from the extraction of resources.

	Das „Great Game“ am Kaspischen Meer und die russische Integrationspolitik

	Selected aspects of budget revenue and budget expenditure as well as extrabudgetary funds and contingent liabilities in the new EU member states - an analysis.

	Handelsbeziehungen und handelspolitische Regelungen zwischen den GUS-Staaten und ihre Rückwirkungen auf den Ost-West-Handel

	Development of the labour markets of candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey).

	The EU enlargement and its effects on the labour markets of the new EU member states and EU15, especially Germany.

	The EU enlargement: Balkan states and their economies - ready to join the EU?

	The EU and its accession candidates. Scenarios of medium-term convergence.

	EU accession countries: Challenges in terms of labour market policy.

	Between Russia and China: Models for reform and governance in Central Asia.