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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 213

Classification
Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Economic Integration
Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: Europe: 1913-
Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913-
Subject
Trade Integration
Schengen Agreement
Gravity

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Felbermayr, Gabriel
Gröschl, Jasmin
Steinwachs, Thomas
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(where)
Munich
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Felbermayr, Gabriel
  • Gröschl, Jasmin
  • Steinwachs, Thomas
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Time of origin

  • 2016

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