Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …

investigate if EU fish standards are protectionist following reoccurring rejection of African fish products at the EU border … variables. In addition, we find EU standards are indeed non-protectionist in spite of the high level of African fish exports … rejected since 2008 at the EU border. Thus, a deeper trade agreement between these trading partners involving a significant …

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements … the EU, the paper shows that the Eastern Partnership countries, including Ukraine, by far the largest in the group, gain … significantly from free trade agreements with the EU, but gain little if anything from free trade agreements with Russia. …

This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in … EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts for firm heterogeneity and selection bias in a panel …-data framework. We find a positive and significant effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediate and final goods. The …