The Low-Hanging Fruit of the Single European Market: New Methods and Measures

Lionel Fontagne and Yoto V Yotov
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Lionel Fontagne: Paris School of Economics
Yoto V Yotov: Drexel University, CGPA

No WP2025/41, Single Market Economics Papers from Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (European Commission), Chief Economist Team

Abstract: We propose and construct novel measures of the effectiveness and potential of trade blocs, combining estimation with granular data and simulation with a New Quantitative Trade Model. We deploy our methods and new indexes to quantify the potential benefits from (i) further integration within the largest and most successful trade liberalization effort in the world – the Single European Market – and (ii) a possibleenlargement

Keywords: European Integration; Trade Costs; Trade Cost Efficiency; Single Market Potential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F14 F16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2025-04
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DOI: 10.2873/4767562

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