Border effects in the enlarged EU area: evidence from imports to accession countries

Manchin, Miriam; Pinna, Anna Maria

doi:10.1080/00036840601044974

“…9 A comparison of their results with estimates by Bröcker (1998) for EU15 countries suggests that by the mid of the 1990s border effects between accession countries and EU15 countries are more important than among EU15 member, as one would expect. 10 This is confirmed by findings of Manchin and Pinna (2003) for the five accession countries Hungary, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Cyprus. Their analysis deals with the question whether market fragmentation is more relevant 7…”

Section: Size and Development Of Border Impediments In The Enlarged Eusupporting

confidence: 75%

“…Bröcker 1998, Head and Mayer 2000, Nitsch 2000. The findings by Sousa and Disdier (2002) as well as Manchin and Pinna (2003) indicate that even higher impediments, caused by technical regulations, deficits in crossborder infrastructure, institutional and administrative disparities as well as cultural and linguistic differences, might still exist between new and old member states. This analysis concentrates on effects resulting from a reduction of such border impediments.…”

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The impact of EU enlargement on European border regions

Niebuhr

¹

2008

IJPP

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may The Impact of EU Enlargement on European Border Regions Annekatrin Niebuhr Preliminary version June 2005Abstract EU enlargement is supposed to entail profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, corresponding empirical results are still rare. The objective of this analysis is to provide empirical evidence on enlargement effects with a special focus on border regions in the EU27 since they are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by integration. Departing from a three-region economic geography model we investigate whether changes in market access released by integration result in aboveaverage integration benefits in border regions.

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“…They examine bilateral trade flows in the CEECs using data for the period 1992-1998 between a sample of accession countries (Cyrpus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia and Poland) and the EU. Manchin and Pinna (2003) use the same Commission's review of the impact of the Single Market in the EU as Vancauteren and Weiserbs (2003). They group products by the approach adopted by the EU to remove technical barriers: the old approach, other approach (including mutual recognition, new approach), and mixed approach (includes products where the old approach and other approach are applicable).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, Manchin and Pinna (2003) try to see whether some differences could be observed in the importance of border effects in trade in products with different magnitudes of technical barriers. They examine bilateral trade flows in the CEECs using data for the period 1992-1998 between a sample of accession countries (Cyrpus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia and Poland) and the EU.…”

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confidence: 99%

Institutional Harmonization in the Context of Relations between the EU and Its Eastern Neighbours: Costs and Benefits and Methodologies of Their Measurement

Kolesnichenko

¹

,

Dimitrov²,

Dubrovskiy³

et al. 2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The CASE Network is a group of economic and social research centers in Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Belarus. Organizations in the network regularly conduct joint research and advisory projects. The research covers a wide spectrum of economic and social issues, including economic effects of the European integration process, economic relations between the EU and CIS, monetary policy and euro-accession, innovation and competitiveness, and labour markets and social policy. The network aims to increase the range and quality of economic research and information available to policy-makers and civil society, and takes an active role in on-going debates on how to meet the economic challenges facing the EU, post-transition countries and the global economy. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayThe CASE network consists of: AbstractThis paper studies costs and benefits of institutional harmonisation in the context of EU relations with its neighbors. The purpose of this paper is to outline the likely forms of institutional harmonisation between the EU and its Eastern neighbors and provide an overview of the methodologies that can be used in measuring its effects (costs and benefits). This paper serves as a background for two measurement exercises -one on benefits and another on costs -that are to be undertaken during the second stage of research. INSTITUTIONAL HARMONIZATION IN THE CONTEXT... CASE Reports No. 75/2007The Authors Veliko Dimitrov is a senior economist at the Institute for Market Economics (IME), Bulgaria. He has worked at IME as a research economist since May 2005, and as a senior economist since January 2007. Veliko studied International Economic Relations at the University of National and World Economics, Sofia and has taken several courses at Friedrich Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany. He has experience in project management, economic research in various areas, occasional lecturing and participation in public policy TV and radio debates. He is a regular columnist in several major Bulgarian newspapers and periodical bulletins published by IME. His main spheres of specialization include the improvement of the national legislation process, labour market reform, reduction of administrative burdens, deregulation of economic activity, telecommunications sector regulation, and cost-benefit analysis.Vladimir Dubrovskiy is senior economist and member of the supervisory board of CASE Ukraine. Mr. Dubrovskiy specializes in the issues...

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“…Second, researchers have studied the effect of European integration and the role of national borders in intra-European trade flows, including Nitsch (2000) and Chen (2004). Finally, Buch and Piazolo (2001) and Manchin and Pinna (2009) study the implications of the Eastern European enlargement in 2004 on the growth and redirection of trade flows towards the European Union. All these studies rather build on aggregated trade data and evaluate the extent to which the composition and volume of trade flows are changing, but do not analyse highly disaggregated trade data which is also a novelty of our approach.…”

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The gains from variety in the European Union

Mohler

¹

,

Seitz

²

2012

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Over the last decade, European Union members have experienced a dramatic increase in imports. This increase was accompanied by a strong growth in the number of imported goods and trading partners, indicating positive welfare gains for consumers via an extended set of consumption possibilities, as pointed out in the "New Trade Theory". In this paper, we apply the methodology developed by Feenstra (1994) and to estimate structurally the gains from imported variety for the 27 countries of the European Union using highly disaggregated trade data at the HTS-8 level from Eurostat for the period of 1999 to 2008. Our results show that, within the European Union, especially "newer" and smaller member states exhibit high gains from newly imported varieties. Furthermore, we find that the vast majority of the gains from variety for consumers stem from intra-European Union trade.

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Border effects in the enlarged EU area: evidence from imports to accession countries

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The impact of EU enlargement on European border regions

Institutional Harmonization in the Context of Relations between the EU and Its Eastern Neighbours: Costs and Benefits and Methodologies of Their Measurement

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