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Montalbano, P and Nenci, S (2014) Assessing the trade impact of the European neighbourhood policy on the EU-MED free trade area. Applied Economics, 46 (7). pp. 730-740. ISSN 0003-6846
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The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) set an additional objective for the Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs): the prospect of ‘a stake in the internal market’. The launch of this new policy has been the occasion for a revival of empirical studies aimed at assessing the impact of the EU-MED partnership on bilateral trade. The novelty of this work is twofold: (i) to present nonparametric matching estimators besides gravity estimates; (ii) to assume as a counterfactual of the treatment the ex-post long-run average treatment effects of the Europe Agreements. By controlling for likely selection bias and country and time heterogeneity, using both qualitative and quantitative measures of the policy variable, we assess ex-post the trade-enhancing impact of the EU preferential agreements towards SMCs and ex ante the actual efficacy of the ENP.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | trade policy, gravity model, matching econometrics, European integration, Southern Mediterranean countries |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Business, Management and Economics > Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Pierluigi Montalbano |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2017 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2017 10:40 |
| URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67081 |