In this article we examine the main factors influencing trade and FDI flows between the transition countries of the Central European Initiative (CEI) and the EU member states. We distinguish three groups of CEI countries, according to the degree of trade and FDI integration with the EU: the...

In this paper we use a gravity model in order to estimate the magnitude of potential trade flows between Greece and nine Balkan countries. We adopt a two stage approach. At the first stage the coefficients of the gravity model for the implemented trade between Greece and thirty trade partners...

This article examines the role that Greece has played in the reorientation of the foreign trade of the transition Balkan countries toward the European Union (EU).Greece's imports from and especially its exports to the other Balkan countries have grown much more rapidly than that of the other EU...