This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey’s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows … to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey's sixteen most important … export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection, and transport costs in the export trade …

composition of exports is scarce. Drawing on the large-scale public investment in expressways undertaken in Turkey during the 2000 …. Two results emerge. First, we estimate that this road infrastructure project accounts for 15 percent of the export … increase from interior regions, generating a 10-year discounted stream of additional export revenues that amount to between 9 …