A Wider Europe: Trade Relations Between an Enlarged EU and the Russian Federation

23 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2009

Date Written: July 2004

Abstract

This paper aims to study the joint effects of the 2004 EU Enlargement and Russia’s entry into the WTO, and the effects of an eventual Russia-Enlarged EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The paper is organized as follows: in Section I, it starts with the brief description of the model used. The effects of the 2004 EU Enlargement are estimated on Section II. In Section III, the effects of Russia’s WTO Accession are simulated up on the benchmark of an Enlarged EU. Section IV simulates different Russia-EU FTAs, again upon the benchmark of an Enlarged EU. The work ends with a conclusion.

Keywords: macroeconomics, macro modeling, transition economics, trade and monetary economics

Suggested Citation

Vinhas de Souza, Lucio Vinhas, A Wider Europe: Trade Relations Between an Enlarged EU and the Russian Federation (July 2004). CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 279, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1440744 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1440744

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