National borders are still strong barriers for mergers and acquisitions in Europe. We estimate a gravity equation model based on NUTS 2-regions and find that the restraining impact of national borders decreased by about a third between 1990 and 2007. However, there has been no significant change...

This paper outlines how unusual data and novel information sources, frontier data, could be used for leveraging larger economic and political processes. These frontier data emerge in unexpected and very geographically and culturally specific ways. Here, we look at the betting on Brexit which...

National borders continue to be strong barriers for mergers and acquisitions in Europe. Using regional data, we construct a gravity model and find that the restraining impact of national borders decreased by more than 20 percent between 1991 and 2007. However, no significant change has occurred...