Campos, NF;
Coricelli, F;
Moretti, L;
(2019)
Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe.
Journal of Monetary Economics
, 103
pp. 88-104.
10.1016/j.jmoneco.2018.08.001.
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Abstract
The literature on the growth effects of European integration remains inconclusive. This is due to severe methodological difficulties mostly driven by country heterogeneity. This paper addresses these concerns using the synthetic control method. It constructs counterfactuals for countries that joined the European Union (EU) from 1973 to 2004. We find that growth effects from EU membership are large and positive, with Greece as the exception. Despite substantial variation across countries and over time, we estimate that without European integration, per capita incomes would have been, on average, approximately 10% lower in the first ten years after joining the EU.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2018.08.001 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2018.08.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Economic growth, Integration, Institutions, European union, Synthetic control method |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10081666 |
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