asymmetric changes in the trade volumes of the incumbent countries of the EU as a result of the EU-Turkey CU. By examining …Following Turkey’s application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly … covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large …

additional increase in EU-Turkey manufacturing trade by 55-65% compared to the previously active Ankara Agreement. We also … provide evidence that the CU-EUT significantly increased Turkey’s trade with third countries. Additionally, a substantial …In view of the deferred start of negotiations for the modernization of the Customs Union between the EU and Turkey (CU …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

In a three-country model of endogenous trade agreements, we study the implications of the Most Favored Nation Clause … (MFN) when countries are free to form discriminatory preferential trade agreements (PTAs). While PTA members discriminate … reduces the potency of a country's optimal tariffs and therefore its incentive for unilaterally opting out of trade …

policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which incomes depend importantly on trade in dirty goods, where income … interacts with the pollution costs and income benefits of trade in dirty goods to further polarize interests concerning both … environmental stringency and the regulation of trade openness. In this context, we show how the eco-friendliness ranking of …

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an … existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a … transactions, we estimate a large positive impact of reduced travel times on trade as well as local manufacturing employment and …