Since the 1960's, the EU has offered trade preferences to developing countries in a complex set of systems. Broadly … and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). We construct a detailed database over these trade preferences and use it …

This paper analyses trade specialisation dynamics in two Eastern European countries(Romania and Bulgaria – EEC-2) vis …

The gravity model of trade is used to assess the economic consequences of new borders, which arose in the wake of break …-ups of multinational federations in Eastern Europe. The intensity of trade relations among the constituent parts of … Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and the Baltics was very high around the time of disintegration, exceeding the normal level of trade …

This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and … the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962 … Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze India's trade flows (exports and imports …

The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European … enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample of bilateral trade flows across 61 countries since 1980. We show that a …-of-sample" approach. The results suggest that trade integration between most of the largest Central and Eastern European countries and the …

This paper analyses the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between EU and India focusing on services trade. Based on … agreement and next predict the impact on services trade flows using a general equilibrium structural gravity analysis. I find …'s trade with the rest of the world would not change much, while India's exports to the rest of the world would decline by …

The empirical relationship between trade protection and economic growth is surprisinglyfragile, as shown in a number of … between trade barriers and growth is contingent on measures ofcomparative advantage. The findings suggest that these …