Which commercial partners are important for the most recently admitted EU countries?

Alicia Gómez- Tello

The Economics of Transition, 2015, vol. 23, issue 1, 247-292

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This paper describes the degree of trade integration inside the European Union (EU) after the fifth enlargement in 2004. To achieve this goal, we build a database of information on trade flows between the new EU countries (EU-10) and 180 commercial partners in six different sectors from 1999 to 2011. Using the standard gravity model and estimating a difference-in-differences specification, we analyze how joining the EU affected the intensity and direction of the EU-10's trade flows. Our results show that though trade exchanges between the EU-10 and EU-15 intensified after 2004, the impact of integration was much more significant to the EU-10 group.

Date: 2015
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