The Impact of EU Enlargement on European Border Regions

Arbeitspapier

EU enlargement is supposed to entail profound impact on the location of economic activities in Europe. Although there is concern about the implications of enlargement for regional disparities in the EU, corresponding empirical results are still rare. The objective of this analysis is to provide empirical evidence on enlargement effects with a special focus on border regions in the EU27 since they are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by integration. Departing from a three-region economic geography model we investigate whether changes in market access released by integration result in above-average integration benefits in border regions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 330

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Economic Integration ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
• Subject: Integration ; market access ; EU enlargement ; border regions ; Grenzgebiet ; Regionale Entwicklung ; EU-Erweiterung ; EU-Binnenmarkt ; Schätzung ; EU-Staaten ; Osteuropa ; EU-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Niebuhr, Annekatrin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19298
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET