Spatial Effects of European Integration: Do Border Regions Benefit Above Average?

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A basic result of new economic geography (NEG) models is that the proximity to consumer markets impacts wages and employment within regions. The ongoing process of European integration, being targeted on the reduction of barriers to trade and factor mobility, has presumably changed relative market access in Europe. The present paper aims at providing some evidence on spatial effects of integration released by declining border impediments and changing market potentials. The analysis departs from a threeregion economic geography model. We focus on the impact of integration on European border regions and the question whether they realise above average integration benefits. The empirical analysis concerns integration effects in the EU15 regions arising from a reduction of non-tariff and other barriers since the mid 1970s.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 307

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: 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
• Thema: New economic geography ; market access ; European integration ; border regions ; Europäische Integration ; Marktintegration ; Grenzgebiet ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; EU-Staaten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Niebuhr, Annekatrin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
• (wo): Hamburg
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19279
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ