The Trade Effects of Border Controls: Evidence from the European Schengen Agreement

The Schengen agreement has guaranteed unchecked travel across internal EUborders since 1995. Has it also facilitated trade flows? Our econometric analysissuggests that Schengen has boosted trade by 3% on average (equivalent to a drop in tariffs by 0.7 percentage points). Goods trade is more robustly affected than services, and peripheral countries benefit more than central ones.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Felbermayr, Gabriel ; Gröschl, Jasmin ; Steinwachs, Thomas
Publisher:	Munich : ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Subject:	Trade Integration \| Schengen Agreement \| Gravity

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Series:	ifo Working Paper ; 213
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	857564706 [GVK] hdl:10419/145302 [Handle] RePec:ces:ifowps:_213 [RePEc]
Classification:	F10 - Trade. General ; F15 - Economic Integration ; N74 - Europe: 1913- ; N94 - Europe: 1913-
Source:	EconStor

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