@article{Rau:182655,
      recid = {182655},
      author = {Rau, Marie-Luise},
      title = {Conquering the EU market with new comprehensive trade  agreements –simulating DCFTAs between the EU and neighbour  countries},
      address = {2014-08},
      number = {727-2016-50415},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {The EU has undertaken considerable efforts of establishing  Deep and Comprehensive Trade Agreements (DCFTAs). The EU  DCFTAs go beyond tariff liberalisation, specifically  targeting “behind the border” measures, commonly referred  to non-tariff measures (NTMs). While offering benefits, the  contents and implementation of the DCFTAs has been  controversially discussed, and this paper investigates  whether DCFTAs will actually help partner countries to sell  their products on the EU market. For the analysis, the  general equilibrium model MAGNET (Modular Applied General  Equilibrium Tool) is applied in a recursive dynamic general  equilibrium framework. In the simulation, DCFTAs are  depicted in terms of a tariff liberalisation and the  elimination of NTMs between the EU and DCFTA partners. The  latter represents the regulatory orientation towards the  EU, whereby the standard “ice-berg costs” approach is  implemented in the simulation.
The simulation results show  that the DCFTA partner countries will not equally benefit  from increased trade with the EU. In particular small DCFTA  partners do not seem to be able to tap into the potential  of the improved trading relations without the DCFTA. Other  DCFTA partners however will be able to considerably  increase their export to the EU, and in this sense they  will conquer the EU market.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182655},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.182655},
}