The EU has recently completed negotiating a series of association agreements with mediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods which are granted under these agreements as well as under former arrangements are analyzed by calculating the value of preference margins at several...

Die EU hat 2004 den 1995 begonnenen Prozess der Aushandlung von Assoziationsabkommen mit den südlichen und östlichen Mittelmeeranrainerstaaten abgeschlossen. Die unter diesen wie auch den vorangegangenen Abkommen gewährten Agrarhandelspräferenzen werden in diesem Beitrag anhand der...

A spatial price equilibrium model with a large coverage of countries, policies and regional trade arrangements is applied to simulate preferential sugar imports of the European Union (EU) in 2015/16 under different assumptions with respect to the expansion of the sugar sectors of various least...

This paper suggests spatial models as an alternative to the Armington approach to model bilateral trade. While the use of spatial models has been accepted for decades, they are rarely chosen for such analyses. However, problems inherent in the application of the Armington approach can be...