Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms

55 Pages Posted: 2 Oct 2020

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Nauro F. Campos

University College London; University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The William Davidson Institute; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Vera Z. Eichenauer

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Jan-Egbert Sturm

KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Date Written: 2020

Abstract

This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time windows and a larger sample of countries than previous studies, we confirm that the euro triggered product but neither labour nor financial market reforms. Differently from previous studies, we find that: (a) the Single Market has similar effects to the euro, and (b) sectoral heterogeneity appears less important in explaining the economic impacts of reforms than country heterogeneity.

Keywords: European integration, structural reforms, single market, euro, sectoral heterogeneity

JEL Classification: F400, N100, N400, O400

Suggested Citation

Campos, Nauro F. and Eichenauer, Vera Z. and Sturm, Jan-Egbert, Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms (2020). CESifo Working Paper No. 8582, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3703460 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3703460

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