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https://doi.org/10.32910/ep.72.4.1

TRADE CREATION AND TRADE DIVERSION EFFECTS FROM CROATIA’S CEFTA AND EU MEMBERSHIP

Hrvoje Jošić
Maja Bašić


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This paper provides a detailed empirical study of trade creation and trade diversion effects arising from Croatia’s two regional trade agreements, the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) and the European Union (the EU). It offers a foundation for discussion about future trade policies in terms of benefits and drawbacks from those regional trade agreements. Croatia’s imports, exports and total trade flows with 180 trading partner countries were examined for the period of 2000 – 2016. Cross-country panel regression using gravity model of international trade assessed pooled OLS, fixed and random effects, as well as more robust Tobit and PPML estimator models. The random effects model found positive effects of Croatia-CEFTA integration evident in trade creation in imports, exports and total trade fl ows. Croatia-EU integration exhibits no significant effect of trade creation in neither imports, exports nor total trade flows. Nonetheless, there is a trade diversion effect in cases of imports and total trade flows. In the Tobit model CEFTA created trade in imports, exports and total trade flows, while the EU diverted trade in imports and total trade flows. Finally, the robust PPML estimator found that: (1) CEFTA membership created trade in imports, exports and total trade flows, and (2) the EU membership diverted trade in imports and exports, and created trade in total trade flows.

Ključne riječi

trade creation; trade diversion; Croatia; CEFTA; EU; gravity model

Hrčak ID:

260565

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/260565

Datum izdavanja:

16.7.2021.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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