Sectoral and economy-wide analysis of integrating Central and Eastern European countries into the EU: Implications of alternative strategies

Hertel, Thomas W.; Brockmeier, Martina; Swaminathan, Padma V.

doi:10.1093/erae/24.3-4.359

“…To some extent, such a complexity of the driving forces influencing trade patterns in the EU countries explains, at least partially, the heterogeneity of empirical findings (Hertel et al 1997;Jakab et al 2001;Nahuis 2004), and suggests that a sector-based analysis could be a powerful tool to better investigate trade patterns. A sector-specific approach may reveal divergent trends within the agri-food sector, especially when the quality improvement process is relevant (De Benedictis and Tajoli 2007a, b).…”

Section: Trade Effects Of the Enlargement Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agri-food exports in the enlarged European Union

Antimiani¹,

Carbone²,

Costantini³

et al. 2012

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Th is paper explores the agri-food export dynamics in the New Member States and the Old Member States of the European Union during the enlargement process. Th e analysis relies on two diff erent approaches based on the similarity and the sophistication indices of exported goods using a disaggregation at 95 items. Th e analysis shows that diff erent and somehow divergent paths are in place. On the one side, the Czech Republic and Poland are involved in a quality catching up process and increase their competitiveness. On the other side, Bulgaria and Romania seem to be still trapped in the low-quality segment of the agri-food market with a decreasing competitiveness performance in the richest segment of the European market.

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“…Our work is also related to the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) assessments of trade integration of the major emerging markets: see, e.g., Francois and Wignaraja (2008) and Ghosh and Rao (2010) for China, and Baldwin, Francois and Portes (1997), Brown, Deardorff, Djankov and Stern (1997), Hertel, Brockmeier and Swaminathan (1997), and Baourakis, Lakatos and Xepapadeas (2008) for Eastern Europe. Unlike the traditional CGE approach, our quantitative framework is based on Eaton and Kortum (2002)'s Ricardian model of trade with endogenous specialization both within and across sectors, which enables us to relate our findings to comparative advantage.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Global Labor Market Impact of Emerging Giants: A Quantitative Assessment

Levchenko¹,

Zhang²

2013

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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. Abstract This paper investigates both aggregate and distributional impacts of the trade integration of China, India, and Central and Eastern Europe in a quantitative multi-country multi-sector model, comparing outcomes with and without factor market frictions. Under perfect withincountry factor mobility, the gains to the rest of the world from trade integration of emerging giants are 0.37%, ranging from −0.37% for Honduras to 2.28% for Sri Lanka. Reallocation of factors across sectors contributes relatively little to the aggregate gains, but has large distributional effects. The aggregate gains to the rest of the world are only 0.065 percentage points lower when neither capital nor labor can move across sectors within a country. On the other hand, the distributional effects of the emerging giants' trade integration are an order of magnitude larger, with changes in real factor returns ranging from −5% to 5% across sectors in most countries. The workers and capital owners in emerging giants' comparative advantage sectors such as Textiles and Wearing Apparel experience greatest losses, while factor owners in Printing and Medical, Precision and Optical Instruments normally gain the most. Terms of use: Documents inJEL Classifications: F11, F15, F16

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“…While several studies estimated the impact of EU enlargement in agriculture on EU expenditures, protection levels, commodity markets, trade and WTO (Banse, Münch, and Tangermann 2000;European Commission 2002, 2007Frohberg et al 1998;Hertel, Brockmeier, and Swaminathan 1997;Münch 2002), these studies generally ignored imperfections in factor markets and paid relatively little attention to the income distribution effects within the CEEC economies. These were important limitations since much of the policy debate centered on how the implementation of the CAP would affect rural incomes in CEECs, and since rural factor markets in new EU member states (NEMS) were characterized by major imperfections (Rizov and Swinnen 2004;World Bank 2001).…”

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Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents: The Common Agricultural Policy in the New EU Member States

Ciaian

¹

,

Swinnen

²

2007

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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. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThis article analyses how credit market imperfections affect the impacts of subsidies by analyzing the effects of agricultural subsidies in the new Eastern Member States of the European Union with a partial equilibrium model which integrates credit and land market imperfections. We show that credit constraints have important implications for the distribution of policy rents. Credit market imperfections may induce very different effects of direct payments and lump-sum transfers.

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Sectoral and economy-wide analysis of integrating Central and Eastern European countries into the EU: Implications of alternative strategies

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Agri-food exports in the enlarged European Union

The Global Labor Market Impact of Emerging Giants: A Quantitative Assessment

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