In this paper we consider the trade creating effects of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) for a large sample of …

In this paper we examine the impact of membership in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) on trade between PTA members …. Rather than considering the impact of PTA membership on the volume of trade we consider the impact of membership on the … structure of trade. For a large sample of countries over the period 1962-2000 we find that membership in a PTA is associated …

. Under growing integration into the European Union, CEEC growth rates seem to converge to the low rates prevailing in the … trade, free capital movements – and more scope for traditional industrial and trade policies. The CEECs are in a serious …

integration itself proceeds from trade to financial to complete market integration. The sustainability of the process depends on … that their actual or potential trade integration with the EU is quite high. Thus, these are countries that reveal …The process of European Union (EU) integration proceeds from economic to political integration. The economic …

balanced economic integration with both Russia and Ukraine simultaneously, thus avoiding a costly disruption of trade links … existence of numerous mutual trade barriers, but, more generally, it reflects the slow progress achieved by both countries in …'s institutional relations with Russia and Ukraine have not progressed much, and even a free-trade area will most probably not be …

in external economic relations and on labour markets trade and current account deficits are high as are the unemployment … terms of development and in terms of intra-regional and inter?regional integration. GDP per capita is low on average, but it … economies. Their main trading partners are in the EU. Intra-regional trade is important only exceptionally. This direction of …

The impact of the Central and Eastern European economies' trade integration with European markets on CEE trade …

, Azerbaijan, and Turkey. Their economies differ in their size, institutional characteristics and integration perspectives, are … rather low level of their regional integration the latter generally proceeds only to the extent to which it is compatible … with the (very unequal) format of these countries' relations with the EU. At the same time, multilateral integration under …