Does a Wait and See Approach to European Integration Shelter the Industrial Base of Small Countries?

Rikard Forslid

No 2004:2, Research Papers in Economics from Stockholm University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper compares the effect of economic integration on industry location for a small country that goes ahead with an integration process, such as the European, and a country adopting a wait and see strategy. Theoretical results, derived from a three-region new economic geography model, are compared to stylised facts on European manufacturing production. The result is that further integration could strengthen the industrial base of small countries that go ahead with integration.

Keywords: Agglomeration; economic integration; multiregion-model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 F21 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2004-03-22
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