This paper examines the impact of EU enlargement on agro-food export performance across 12 new EU member states and 5 … newly independent states in the EU markets covering the period 1999-2007. The performance is examined by duration of export … gains from the eastward EU enlargement and governance on export increases and longer duration for exporting higher value …

common currency increases the export activity of individual firms. In particular, we refer to the new strand in the trade … theory, based on the Melitz (2003) model, in which propensity to export depends on productivity and costs of exporting. There … studies demonstrate that export performance positively depends on firms' characteristics, but they do not take into account …