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Unpublished Paper
CEECs Integration into Regional and Global Production Networks
(2011)
Abstract
We estimate a gravity model that incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for firm heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediates and final goods for the period 1999-2009. The importance of production networks is captured by including imports of intermediates as a determinant of a country’s exports of final goods. We find a positive and significant effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediate and final goods. Hence, the elimination of “behind the border” trade barriers has a positive impact on increasing not only trade volumes but also trade varieties.
Keywords
- exports; gravity equation; panel data; production networks; economic integration; trade flows.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Inma Martinez-Zarzoso, Anca Voicu and Martina Vidovic. "CEECs Integration into Regional and Global Production Networks" (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/inma_martinez_zarzoso/20/