European Integration and Productivity: Exploring the Gains of the Single Market

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Practice area: Competition & Antitrust | Productivity, Innovation and New Economy
Client: LE Working Paper
Published: May, 2002
Keywords: quantitative analysis

This paper uses a variety of panel data techniques to argue that the European Single Market Programme significantly increased productivity in a number of European countries. In particular, as a result of the Programme, industry productivity increased considerably in 1992 and 1993 in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and in the UK.