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Title: Choosing Institutional over Economic Integration: Are There Growth Effects?

Author(s): Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli and Luigi Moretti

Publication Date: July 2020

Keyword(s): economic integration, European Union and Institutional integration

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: 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 only economic integration in 1995, the average Norwegian region would have experienced a yearly average productivity growth increase of about half a percentage point. We also find these losses are larger for industry than for other sectors.

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Campos, N, Coricelli, F and Moretti, L. 2020. 'Choosing Institutional over Economic Integration: Are There Growth Effects?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15078