Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence

Irena Mikolajun () and Jean-Marie Viaene ()
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Irena Mikolajun: Erasmus School of Economics and Tinbergen Institute
Jean-Marie Viaene: Erasmus School of Economics and Tinbergen Institute

Open Economies Review, 2019, vol. 30, issue 4, No 1, 654 pages

Abstract: Abstract In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate the consequences of this event for EU integration. In particular, we analyze how the extent of EU economic integration would change once the UK leaves the Union. To that end we develop an integration benchmark that consists of the steady state production equilibrium characterized by arbitrage pricing and perfect factor mobility. We apply metrics to measure the distance between this benchmark and the data. We find that the integration in the EU is incomplete and its trend is non-linear while Brexit would not bring negative consequences to its development.

Keywords: Brexit; Regional integration; Euclidean distance; Factor mobility; Arbitrage pricing; Reflected geometric Brownian motion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E13 F15 F21 F4 O11 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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