21 juillet 2020
Nauro Campos et al., « Choosing Institutional over Economic Integration: Are There Growth Effects? », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.qtxsgz
This paper studies the effects on productivity of integration deepening. Our identification strategy uses the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement when all four candidate countries joined the European Economic Area (economic integration) but only one (Norway) chose not to join the EU (institutional integration). Using synthetic control methods on sectoral and regional data, we find that had Norway chosen institutional instead of onlyeconomic integration in 1995, the average Norwegian region would have experienced a yearly average productivity growth increase of about half apercentage point. We also find these losses are larger for industry than for other sectors.