Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of the Europe Agreement on Poland’s imports using econometric models applied to highly disaggregated trade data. This allows other influences on Poland’s trade patterns to be controlled for, specifically the effects of other trade agreements and for the emergence of China. The paper shows that the Europe Agreement had transitory effects on Poland’s imports, but that the scale of the trade effects and the balance of trade creation and diversion effects is sensitive to model specification. The preferred dynamic specification which allows for heterogeneity of time effects across sectors identifies the Europe Agreement to have net trade-creating effects.

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