This study investigates the welfare impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions to cross-border e-commerce in the EU … changes in both consumer and producer surpluses. Finally, we extrapolated these partial results to all online sales in the EU …

In February 2018 the EU adopted the Geo-Blocking Regulation that prohibits any attempts to restrict consumer access to …-commerce, even if modest. We find that the regulation increased real cross-border e-commerce activity inside the EU from 9.2% to 13 …%, depending on model specifications. It increased cross-border trade between EU consumers and e-commerce sites anywhere in the …