New Borders and Trade Flows: a Gravity Model Analysis of the Baltic States

D.A. Byers, Talan B. Iscan () and B. Lesser

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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to provide evidence on the effects of an economic and political union by studying the trade flows of the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after the breakup of the Soviet Union. We specify and estimate a gravity model of exports for the Nordic countries which enables us to determine the size and direction of trade flows in the Baltic states had they not been affected by the political institutions of the Soviet Union.

Keywords: TRADE POLICY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; SOCIALIST COUNTRIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F15 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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