Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33290 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1829
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an out-of-sample methodology. The coefficients are taken from different panel estimators of the gravity equation relative to intra-EU trade. Our analysis suggests the existence of sizeable, unexploited trade potential with both groups of partners, although the ratio of potential to actual trade with the MED countries is much larger (from 1.7 to 2.5 times), more dispersed and stable compared to that with the CEECs. Moreover, the potential tends to converge to actual trade in a much longer time in the case of MED countries.
Subjects: 
MED agreemeents
EU eastward enlargement
gravity equation
trade potential
JEL: 
C23
F15
F17
P45
P52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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