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 …

different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are … effects for the EU are negligible in magnitude and statistically not different from zero …

-tariff barriers. We find that, for the particular case of the EU, it is not possible to strictly discriminate between horizontal or …

main languages used in EU and candidate countries. We show that widespread knowledge of languages is an important …

Eastern Partnership attempted to further political stability and economic development by liberalizing trade between the EU and … establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … among the countries of the region as well as between each such country and the EU. Using a panel gravity model of trade …

-half of the growth in trade over the period 1999-2003 and are therefore a major driving force of the EU Single Market …