D No.

Title

Deadline

1

Literature review on spillover channels (WP2)

Jan 2003

2

The constituency of competitive pressure and competition policy (WP1)

Apr 2003

3

Evaluation of host-country characteristics and absorptive capacity (WP2)

Apr 2003

4

Evaluation of impact of inward investment on adjustment (WP2)

Jul 2003

5

A review and critical synthesis of the state-of-the art in the area of competitive pressure and its institutional and policy framework (WP1)

Aug 2003

6

Literature survey on poverty rate and income distribution in candidate countries (WP4)

Aug 2003

7

Papers 1 and 2 (on absorptive capacity and inward investment and adjustment) (WP2)

Oct 2003

8

Paper on competitive pressure and market structure (WP1)

Oct 2003

9

Literature survey on labour market developments in candidate countries, and on the labour market consequences of competitive pressure (WP3)

Oct 2003

10

Papers on competition in imperfect markets and on the institutional framework of competition policy (WP1)

merged into: D 19

11

Completion of assembly of dataset for econometric analysis (WP2)

merged into: D 21

12

Paper outlining the hypotheses for the empirical work (WP3)

Apr 2004

13

Country studies on income and social policies with relation to competitive pressure (WP4)

May 2004

14

Paper on the impact of transition and pre-accession on income distribution and inequality in selected EU catching-up and candidate countries (WP4)

Jun 2004

15

Paper on the impact on labour markets and economic structure of increased competition pressure (WP4)

Jun 2004

16

Paper on enterprise adjustment in imperfect markets (WP1)

Oct 2004

17

Country specific empirical analysis of labour market consequences of competitive pressure Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian (WP3)

Oct 2004

18

Country specific empirical analysis of public perception consequences of competitive pressure. Empirical results and comparison with existing studies (WP4)

Dec 2004

19

Papers on the behaviour of institutional agents in response to competitive pressure and on firm level responses to institutional intervention (WP1)

Mar 2005

20

Final report on competitive pressure in the corporate sector, its institutional aspects and policy framework (WP1)

Jan 2006

21

Completed econometric analysis (WP2)

Apr 2005

22

Papers 1 and 2 (on: Evaluation of policy implications; completion of three papers on econometric analysis and policy aspects) (WP2)

Apr 2005

23

Final report, with a special emphasis on international comparison (WP3)

Apr 2005

24

An overview paper on the identified links between firms, individuals and institutions related to competitive pressure (WP5)

merged into: D 25

25

A paper on the integrated analytical framework to explore competitive pressure and the interactions between firms, individuals and institutions (WP5)

Mar 2006

26

A summary paper with policy conclusions and recommendations (WP5)

Apr 2006