IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mes/eaeuec/v43y2005i1p59-81.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

EU Trade with the Balkans : Large Room for Growth?

Author

Listed:
  • MARCO MONTANARI

Abstract

This paper evaluates the potential for growth in trade between the European Union and the Western Balkans. A clear-cut picture emerges from the application of a gravity model. EU trade with the Western Balkans shows considerable room for growth in both imports and exports; on the contrary, EU trade with two Balkan countries, Bulgaria and Romania, is close to, or in some cases exceeds, the values predicted by the model. From this analysis, it follows that trade policy, alongside geographical proximity, plays an important role in shaping trade patterns.

Suggested Citation

  • Marco Montanari, 2005. "EU Trade with the Balkans : Large Room for Growth?," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(1), pages 59-81, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:eaeuec:v:43:y:2005:i:1:p:59-81
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=Q1BN2PQP82PBGE7D
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vladimir Ristanovic & Dusan Cogoljevic & Sinisa Barjaktarevic, 2017. "Direction of Serbian Trade: Gravity Model Based on Pool Data," EuroEconomica, Danubius University of Galati, issue 1(36), pages 21-33, May.
    2. Rosmaiza A. Ghani & Michael P. Cameron & William Cochrane & Matthew Roskruge, 2019. "A Gravity Model Estimation of the Bi-Directional Relationship between International Trade and Migration," Working Papers in Economics 19/02, University of Waikato.
    3. Horsewood, Nicholas & Voicu, Anca Monika, 2011. "Does corruption facilitate trade for the new EU members?," Economics Discussion Papers 2011-53, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    4. Sandeep KAUR* & Parmjit NANDA**, 2011. "An Analysis of Actual and Potential Exports of Pakistan with SAARC Countries:A Panel Data Analysis," Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Research Centre, vol. 21, pages 69-91.
    5. Camil-George G. STOENESCU, 2015. "The Evolution Of Romania’S Trade (2002 - 2014): Highlights And Structure," SEA - Practical Application of Science, Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence, Editorial Department, issue 7, pages 527-535, April.
    6. Nuroğlu, Elif & Kurtagic, Haris, 2012. "Costs and Benefits of the EU Enlargement: The Impact on the EU and SEE Countries," MPRA Paper 54741, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mes:eaeuec:v:43:y:2005:i:1:p:59-81. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/MEEE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.