This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic … calculate that without deep economic and political integration, per capita incomes would have been, on average, approximately 12 …

This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage … points. This method also helps determining the sources of heterogeneity, apparently inherent to integration, highlighting …

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been … integration, we find, can induce broad institutional change by providing incentives for simultaneous change in core state …

This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial …

effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural …

, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor …. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the impact of economic integration on … nexus not only on an economy-wide level, but analyze whether the impact of integration varies for different sectors …

theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …