出版社：Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Univ. Hohenheim
摘要：The eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) brought and will bring full
membership to countries whose trade barriers with the EU had to a large extent
already been removed under Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) during the 1990s. We
employ a theory-based new version of a gravity equation, whose specification
allows for an assessment of the impact of the arrangements on extra- and
intra-group imports. We find robust evidence that the agreements have
substantially increased intra-group trade, in the case of the Czech and Slovak
Republic at the expense of the Rest of the World (ROW).
