Year: 2011
Type: preprint
Abstract: 2 CEECs Integration into Regional Production Networks. Trade Effects of EU-Accession We estimate a gravity model that incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for firm heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediates and final goods for the period 1999-2009. The importance of production networks is captured by including imports of intermediates as a determinant of a country‟s exports of final goods. We find a positive and significant effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediate and final goods. Hence, the elimination of “behind the border ” trade barriers has a positive impact on increasing not only trade volumes but also trade varieties.
Institutions: Universitat Jaume I, Rollins College
Language: English
Topic: Global trade and economics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1522660244