The aim of this paper is to find out the determinants of the electronics trade flows of Romania and their impact before and after the EU integration, the impact of the traditional determinants, like the economic size and distance, as well as the impact of the economic, trade policy and political determinants. An augmented gravity model was used, including traditional variables as GDP, distance, EU membership and common border, as well as nontraditional ones, as trade openness, political stability and inflation. A balanced panel approach was used in order to solve the heteroskedasticity problem. EViews 10 was used for regression. For Romanian trading partners, the findings are in line with the previous studies. The economic size of the partner countries, the common border, the EU membership, the trade openness and the political stability positively influence the electronics trade flows. The distance between countries and the trading partners inflation have a negative impact on the electronics trade flows. But some atypical results were found for the Romanian variables. The coefficients for the Romanian GDP are negative, and for the Romanian inflation, negative and also positive coefficients were found. The trade deciders should understand the dynamics and the structure of the Romanian electronics trade flows and the importance of the trade policy factors, like trade openness and of the political factors, like the stability. In the future, the dynamics and the structure of the Romanian electronics exports, re-exports, as well as electronics parts as components should be studied separately.
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