Stretching EU Frontiers Toward East: The Consequences For Agricultural Trade Integration

stretching eu frontiers toward east: the consequences for agricultural trade integration

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

The Impact of Integration on International Trade Flows: the Cases of EU, OIC & ECO

The growth of regional trade blocks has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Regional agreements vary widely but, all have the objective of reducing barriers to trade between member countries that in most cases result in increasingly trade flows and economic growth. This paper attempts to explore the results of trade integration in ECO, EU and OIC block...

eu enlargement: the new member states and agricultural trade potentials

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R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

“Informal barriers and agricultural trade: Does the integration matter?”

EU enlargement revives the debate around the participation to the EMU. We use a gravity model to see whether informal barriers have changed over a ten-year period covering the creation of the EMU, and whether their impact on European member countries’ agricultural and food trade has been modified. We find that it has led to lower information costs. We observe a diminishing marginal trade impact...