A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … candidates actual values are still far below expected ones in most cases. Consequently, we anticipate rising capital and trade …

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant … progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia … occupation. In addition, a trade entropy analysis and gravity model estimates show that European integration of the Baltic states …

This paper aims to evaluate the trade potential of manufactured products between countries belonging to the EU in the …-Maximum Likelihood Method. We extend the specification of the gravity model in order to capture bilateral trade specificities between … groups of countries of the enlarged EU, allowing to test the statistical significance of these inter-groups' trade potential …

This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro … estimated for a large sample of bilateral trade flows across 61 countries since 1980. We show that a careful examination of the … the transition process. We therefore propose a two-stage "out-of-sample" approach. The results suggest that trade …

real export, while non-EU countries experience an increase due to trade diversion effects. Similarly, I also investigate … potential future free trade agreements like TTIP. …

This paper applies the gravity trade model to assess Mercosur-European Union trade, and trade potential following the … agreements reached recently between both trade blocs. The model is tested for a sample of 20 countries, the four formal members … important determinants of bilateral trade flows …

determinants of the growth of intra-EU trade from 1960 to 2000. The results suggest that income growth was the major force …, accounting for approximately two-thirds of total growth. Trade liberalization still had a sizeable effect, while other factors … had only a little impact (income convergence, real effective exchange rate changes) or played no role (trade costs). Our …

and for Cyprus and Malta as they are Commonwealth countries. When only the trade channel of Brexit is estimated, GDP (or … with higher non-tariff trade barriers. Results are sensitive to some parameters such as the reaction of trade volumes to … changes in tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers (trade elasticities). Reaching a Free Trade Agreement could limit the GDP …