Growth Effects of Economic Integration: Evidence from the EU Member States

Badinger, Harald

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“…Landau (1995) finds that there was no long-term growth effects associated with membership to the European Commission (EC). Badinger (2001) finds no permanent increase in growth rates related to economic integration within the European Union. Spilimbergo et al (1999) theoretically shows that RIAs could inhibit growth by changing the composition of trade in favour of low-technology goods or goods with less learning-by-doing.…”

Section: Background On Economic Integration In the Threementioning

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The impact of regional integration on economic growth: empirical evidence from COMESA, EAC and SADC trade blocs

Kamau¹

2010

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This study examines the impact of economic integration on growth by constructing an economic integration index based on average Most Favoured Nations (MFN) tariffs and the level of regional cooperation for COMESA, EAC and SADC. Applying system GMM estimation technique, the study confirms a positive relationship between economic integration and economic growth. Economic integration and trade, separately and jointly, have a positive and significant impact on growth. The study recommends among other policies, pursuance of nondiscriminatory trade liberalization concomitantly with preferential liberalization in both goods and services, for economic integration to have a significant and sustained positive impact on growth.

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Section: Background On Economic Integration In the Threementioning

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The impact of regional integration on economic growth: empirical evidence from COMESA, EAC and SADC trade blocs

Kamau¹

2010

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“…Badinger (2001), examines the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/WTO and membership in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), among other economic characteristics of the European Union. De Benedictis and Tajoli (2011) show that being a member of the WTO makes a state more integrated into the international economy than non-member states.…”

Section: Economic Growth Through Economic Integrationmentioning

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Rather Yields than Rights: The influence of economic integration on the consolidation of autocratic regimes

Kristen¹

2017

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Despite the research on globalization and the survival of autocracies through economic integration, the knowledge regarding the relationship between these two events, the importance of which has noticeably increased in the last decades, is still limited. This paper examines the influence that economic integration has on the consolidation and therefore the durability of autocratic regimes. I use Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression models to test the impact that foreign direct investment, trade agreements, investment treaties and membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have on the durability of autocracies within 120 countries between 1961 and 2008. The results generally support my theoretical assumptions that a higher level of economic integration leads to increased durability and hence consolidation of autocracies. However, WTO membership decreases the durability, and FDI inflows have an impact only within a certain range while trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties extend the lifespan of the examined cases.

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“…For example, Badinger (2005) found that European economic integration has had a sizeable impact on the level of income but has not had a permanent effect on the rate of growth. This is in line with recent investigations of the impact of trade liberalizations using difference-in-differences approaches (Estevadeordal and Taylor, 2013) but goes against the hopeful predictions of some economists in the 1980s.…”

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Economic growth: onwards and upwards?

Crafts¹

2015

ECOPOL

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This paper considers developments in UK growth performance and supply-side policies since the 1980s. It argues that economic reforms made in the Thatcher years and consolidated under subsequent governments delivered improved pre-crisis growth outcomes helped by the ICT revolution and stronger competition in product markets. The new growth economics provided useful insights for policymakers some of which were partly heeded. Recently, as productivity growth has stalled, there has been a turn to 'soft' industrial policy and a fear that the future is one of secular stagnation. The former has made little difference and the latter is unlikely.

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Growth Effects of Economic Integration: Evidence from the EU Member States

Abstract: Economic growth, economic integration, European Union, panel data,

Cited by 167 publications

References 33 publications

The impact of regional integration on economic growth: empirical evidence from COMESA, EAC and SADC trade blocs

The impact of regional integration on economic growth: empirical evidence from COMESA, EAC and SADC trade blocs

Rather Yields than Rights: The influence of economic integration on the consolidation of autocratic regimes

Economic growth: onwards and upwards?

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