The importance of EU-15 borders for CEECs agri-food exports: The role of tariffs and non-tariff measures in the pre-accession period

Food Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 595-606

  Chevassus Lozza, Emmanuelle ^a   Latouche, Karine ^a   Majkovič, Darja ^b   Unguru, Manuela ^c  

^a LERECO   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Casa Academiei Romane   (Romania)

Author keywords

Agri food products; Border effect; Eastern EU enlargements; Gravity equation; Tariffs and NTBs; Trade resistance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TRADE; BORDER REGION; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD MARKET; MODELING; TARIFF STRUCTURE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION;

EID: 55349088887     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Anderson J.E., and van Wincoop E. Gravity with gravitas: a solution to the border puzzle. American Economic Review 93 1 (2003) 170-192
2. Anderson, J.E., van Wincoop, E., 2004. Trade costs. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper # 10480.
3. Baldwin, R., Taglioni, D., 2006. Gravity for Dummies and Dummies for Gravity Equations. NBER Working Paper No. 12516. 31 pp.
4. Barret C., and Yang Y. Rational incompatibility with international product standard. Journal of International Economics 54 (2001) 171-191
5. Bureau J.-C., and Beghin J.C. Quantitative policy analysis of sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers to trade. Economie Internationale (2001) 107-130
6. Chen N. Intra-national versus international trade in the European Union: Why do national borders matter?. Journal of International Economics 63 (2004) 93-118
7. Disdier A.-C., and Mayer T. Je t'aime, moi non plus: Bilateral opinions and international trade. European Journal of Political Economy 23 (2007) 1140-1159
8. Disdier A.-C., Fontagné L., and Mimouni M. The impact of regulations on agricultural trade: evidence from the SPS and TBT agreements. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 2 (2008) 336-350
9. European Commission, 2006. IP 06/1641. More veterinary and food safety decisions for after Enlargement agreed. Available at: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1641&f ormat=HTML&aged=0& language=EN&guiLanguage=fr.
10. European Environment Agency, 2004. Agriculture and the Environment in the EU accession countries. Environmental Issue Report No. 37. 55 pp.
11. Eurostat, 2006. Europe in figures. Eurostat Yearbook 2005 online. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1334, 49092079,1334_ 49092794&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL.
12. Evenett S.-J., and Keller W. On theories explaining the success of the gravity equation. Journal of Political Economy 110 2 (2002) 281-316
13. Fehér I. Meeting EU standards in Eastern Europe: the case of the Hungarian agri-food sector. Food Control 13 (2002) 93-96
14. Fidrmuc, J., Fidrmuc J., 2000. Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: evolution of trade relations during the 1990s. Centre for Economic Research Working Paper 2000-12. 27 pp.
15. Freudenberg, M., Gaulier, G., Ûnal-Kensenci, D., 1998. 'La régionalisation du commerce international: Une évaluation par les intensités relatives bilatérales', document de travail 1998-05, Paris: CEPII, 101 p.
16. Haveman, J., Thursby, J.G., 2000. The impact of tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in agricultural commodities: a disaggregated approach. Purdue University, 21 p.
17. Head K., and Mayer T. Non-Europe: the magnitude and causes of market fragmentation in the EU. Review of World Economics 136 (2000) 286-314
18. Head K., and Mayer T. Effet frontiére, intégration économique et "forteresse europe". Economie et Prévision (2002) 71-92
19. Heckman J.-J. Sample selection bias as a specification error. Econometrica 47 (1979) 153-161
20. Helpman, E., Melitz, M., Rubinstein, Y., 2005. Trading partners and trading volumes. Available at: http://ipc.umich.edu/edts/pdfs/TradingPartners05_0331.pdf.
21. Henry de Frahan B., and Vancauteren M. Harmonization of food regulation and trade in the single market: evidence from disaggregated data. European Review of Agricultural Economics 33 3 (2006) 337-360
22. Hillberry, R., 2001. Aggregation Bias, Compositional Change, and the Border Effect. Office of Economics Working Paper. U.S. International Trade Commission, No. 2001-04-B: 26 pp.
23. Manchin M., and Pinna A.M. Border effects in the enlarged EU area. Evidence from imports to applicant countries. Center for European Policy Studies 8 (2003) 7-9
24. Mayer, T., Zignago, S., 2005. Market Access in Global and Regional Trade. CEPII Working Paper No. 2005-02, January.
25. McCallum J. National borders matter: Canada-U.S. regional trade patterns. The American Economic Review 85 3 (1995) 615-623
26. Nahuis R. One size fits all? Accession to the internal market; an industry-level assessment of EU enlargement. Journal of Policy Modelling 26 (2004) 571-586
27. OECD, 2002. Vue d'ensemble des obstacles non tarifaires: Résultats des enquêtes auprès des entreprises. OECD, Paris.
28. OECD, 2003. Agro-food products and technical barriers to trade: a survey of issues and concerns raised in the WTO's TBT Committee.
29. Olper A., and Raimondi V. Agricultural market integration in the OECD: a gravity-border effect approach. Food Policy 33 (2008) 165-175
30. Papazoglou C., Pentecost E.J., and Marques H. A gravity model forecast of the potential trade effects of EU enlargement: lessons from 2004 and path-dependency in integration. The World Economy 29 8 (2006) 1077-1089
31. Peridy N. Towards a new trade policy between the USA and middle-east countries: estimating trade resistance and export potential. World Economy 28 4 (2005) 491-518
32. Sales, A.E., Plomondon M.E., Magid, D.J., Spertus, J.A., Rumsfeld, J.S., 2004. Assessing response bias from missing quality of life data: the Heckman Method. Health Quality Life Outcomes 2:49. Published online 2004 September 16.
33. Subramanian A., and Wei S.-J. The WTO promotes trade, strongly but unevenly. Journal of International Economics 72 (2007) 151-175
34. Ugland T., and Veggeland F. Experiments in Food Safety Policy Integration in the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies 44 3 (2006) 607-624