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Some New Insights into the Effects of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Area: The Role of Non Tariff Barriers

Decreux, Yvan; Milner, Chris - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 783-817

The present study proposes an updated and extended quantitative assessment of the EU-South Korea FTA, through a new … equivalents of NTBs following Kee et al. (2009). The main findings show that the EU may increase trade performance in several …

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Monetary Union, Real Exchange Rate, and Welfare

Akiba, Hiroya - In: Journal of Economic Integration 22 (2007), pp. 748-779

This paper considers the effects of formation or new accession to a monetary union (MU) on itself (“ins”) and the outsiders (“outs”) as well. Since a MU inherently means a “large” entity, we construct a large country model to examine those effects in the context of economic growth....

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Should the Caribbean Countries Sign an Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU?: Challenges and Strategic Options

Busse, Matthias; Lüehje, Simon - In: Journal of Economic Integration 22 (2007), pp. 598-618

Currently, the European Union is negotiating an free trade agreement, called Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), with Caribbean countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The paper empirically assesses the impact of the...

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Competitiveness and the External Trade of Greece in the 1990s: A Cross-Sectoral Investigation

G. ARGHYROU, MICHAEL; BAZINA, EVELYN - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 763-793

The paper examines Greek external trade following accession to the EU, placing emphasis on the 1990s. Using original … disaggregated data we find: (i) Mutually offsetting, stable trade creation/trade diversion in imports from EU and third countries … respectively. (ii) No EU effect on exports. These experienced a negative structural shift in the 1990s. (iii) Competitiveness …

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Implementation of the European Monetary Union and Its Sustainability, 1999-2002: Recommendations from a Dynamic Game

Sophia Aguirre, Maria - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 19-46

This paper presents a dynamic theoretic model of monetary union break - downs that result from violations of the macroeconomic targets agreed upon at the time of monetary integration. Non-cooperative behavior of two constituen - cies or interest groups results in multiple possible equilibria....

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An Analysis of Trade Relations between the European Union and the Transition Economies of Central and Eastern Europe

Liargovas, Panagiotis; Papazoglou, Christos - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 651-664

level of trade integra - tion between the transition economies of the Black Sea region (BSEC) and the European Union (EU …

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Trade Facilitation and the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

Persson, Maria - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 518-546

specifically for the six regional groups of ACP countries negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the EU. Data from …-border transaction costs, and a gravity model on two-way bilateral trade between 22 EU countries and 100 developing countries is …

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Where are the Limits to the Enlargement of the European Union?

N. Jovanovi´c, Miroslav - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 467-496

Protection of the Single Market, monetary integration, institutional and pol - icy reform, as well as enlargement are hot topics in the European Union. This article considers only the economic dimension of the enlargement. Five coun - tries with economies in transition (the Czech Republic,...

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Transnational Income Convergence and National Income Disparity: Europe, 1960~2012

Kaitila, Ville - In: Journal of Economic Integration 29 (2014), pp. 343-371

per capita convergence in the EU-15, but the extransition countries have mostly continued to catch up. We found this by … are left outside of income increases, then the general development is not in line with the spirit of the EU convergence …

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