Measurement of Export Market Concentration for the Largest European Economic Integrations

Abstract

Background: By joining different regional economic trade agreements, countries achieve preferential trade liberalisation. There are four main types of regional economic agreements in the world today: free trade area, customs union, common market, and economic and monetary union.

Keywords

• european regional economic integrations
• export market concentration
• intra-regional trade
• standardized concentration measures
• c43
• f15