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Disappearing Borders in the Visegrad Countries
Disappearing Borders in the Visegrad Countries

Author(s): Ádám Márkus
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Keywords: border effect; Visegrad countries; gravity model; market integration; PPML

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the trade integration process of the Visegrad countries from a special point of view, namely by estimating border effects in the countries. The regressional analysis run with two different estimators (OLS vs. PPML) on two different model specifications suggests that between 1995 and 2011 the V4 countries were integrating continuously into the Single Market of the European Union. The results also show that the size of border effect is fairly sensitive to the estimator and particularly to the specification chosen by the researcher. According to the country-level estimation, Hungary seems to be the most integrated country getting the lowest home bias parameters followed by the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, respectively.

  • Issue Year: 27/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 149-168
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English