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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment

Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and singlemarket- induced migration from new to present...

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Market Access and Regional Disparities: New Economic Geography in Europe

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2004

New Economic Geography (NEG) has reached a theoretical consolidation while related empirical tests are still scarce. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on the validity of forces emphasised by NEG. The analysis starts from the nominal wage equation derived from the Krugman...

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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

Crozet, Matthieu; Brülhart, Marius; Koenig, Pamina - 2004

We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...

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Divergence – Is it geography?

Straubhaar, Thomas; Suhrcke, Marc; Urban, Dieter M. - 2002

This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics. In...

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Legal framework as a trade barrier - Evidence from transition countries: Hungarian, Romanian and Slovene examples

de Sausa, José; Disdier, Anne-Célia - 2002

Eastern European countries on international trade. This approach offers an evaluation of the borders' impact on trade. A … market is fragmented when actual trade differs from the trade that would be expected in an economy without border …-related barriers. Recent findings have emphasized informal trade barriers as obstacles to trade flows (Anderson and Marcouiller, 2002 …

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Footloose capital, market access, and the geography of regional state aid

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2001

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood … stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As …

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China's trade surplus : implications for the world and for Europe$dinternational trade

Matthes, Jürgen - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 59 (2024) 2, pp. 104-111

China's merchandise trade surplus has reached an all-time high and is likely to rise further. A key driver appears to … trading partners with high trade deficits with China. As this constellation could be the source of growing trade conflicts …, this article analyses China's growing trade surplus in several dimensions with a focus on Chinas trade relation to the EU. …

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EEC trade policies and Latin American export performance : a discussion of causalities

Langhammer, Rolf J. - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 15 (1980) 5, pp. 246-251

them not least on the allegedly protectionist and descriminating EEC trade policy, Dr. Langhammer shows that internal …

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Europe’s interest in free world trade

Haferkamp, Wilhelm - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 12 (1977) 11/12, pp. 286-289

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The external trade of the CACM-countries

Klinner, Bernhard - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 9 (1974) 3, pp. 87-90

countries' development of their external trade during the period 1960-1972. …

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