Liberalization of Trade with the European Union and its Impact on the Reduction in Central European Free Trade Agreement 2006 Trade Balance Deficit

Safet Kurtovic and Sead Talovic
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Safet Kurtovic: Faculty of Economics, University Dzemal Bijedic Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sead Talovic: Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2015, vol. 5, issue 2, 552-565

Abstract: This paper's main objective is to research the effect of liberalization of trade with the European Union and its impact on the reduction in trade balance deficit of Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) 2006. It utilizes panel data (PD) time-series in the interval from 2007 to 2013. It applies economical gravity model and econometric dynamic PD techniques: PD models, fixed effects models and random effects models (RE). It has been concluded that trade liberalization positively impacts the reduction in trade balance deficit of CEFTA 2006 countries, i.e. that export and import between the exporting country i and the importing country j within time period t, gross domestic product (GDP) of the country j, GDP per capita of the country j within time period t, distance between the country i and country j, dummy variables (free trade agreements and sharing a common border) are statistically significant. Additionally, it has been determined that FE is more favorable than RE when it comes to achieving better assessment of the effects of independent variables on a dependent variable.

Keywords: Liberalization; Trade Balance; Deficit; Integration; Export; Import (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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