Arbeitspapier
The Trade Effects of Border Controls: Evidence from the European Schengen Agreement
The Schengen agreement has guaranteed unchecked travel across internal EUborders since 1995. Has it also facilitated trade flows? Our econometric analysissuggests that Schengen has boosted trade by 3% on average (equivalent to a drop in tariffs by 0.7 percentage points). Goods trade is more robustly affected than services, and peripheral countries benefit more than central ones.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 213
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Economic Integration
Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: Europe: 1913-
Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913-
- Subject
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Trade Integration
Schengen Agreement
Gravity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Felbermayr, Gabriel
Gröschl, Jasmin
Steinwachs, Thomas
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Veröffentlichung
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Felbermayr, Gabriel
- Gröschl, Jasmin
- Steinwachs, Thomas
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Time of origin
- 2016