How reliable are estimations of East-West trade potentials based on cross-section gravity analyses?

Empirica

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-94

  Breuss, Fritz ^a   Egger, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; European Union; Gravity model; Trade

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; METHODOLOGY; TRADE FLOW;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032735969     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007011329676     Document Type: Article

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