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What Benefits from Completing the Single Market

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  • Vincent Aussilloux
  • Charlotte Emlinger
  • Lionel Fontagné

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European integration is endangered by rising fears of sovereign default. Against this background, assessing the economic impacts attached to the Single Market is crucial to measuring the overall benefits provided by the European Union to its citizens. Over the last thirty years, substantial progress has been achieved to better integrate the markets of the member states. New evidence on barriers to trade in services and on non-tariffs obstacle to trade in goods confirms however that this process is far from being complete. Our economic simulation using the MIRAGE model concludes that the elimination of all remaining obstacles to trade would benefit the European Union by an order of magnitude two to three times larger than those already reaped so far. The complete elimination of obstacles to trade across the Single Market is indeed a stylised and unrealistic assumption. However, the magnitude of the potential gains is such that the study confirms undoubtedly the potential of the Single Market as one avenue to boost EU growth in the years to come and to escape from a vicious circle of recession.

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  • Vincent Aussilloux & Charlotte Emlinger & Lionel Fontagné, 2011. "What Benefits from Completing the Single Market," La Lettre du CEPII, CEPII research center, issue 316.
  • Handle: RePEc:cii:cepill:2011-316
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    Cited by:

    1. Mr. Christian H Ebeke & Jan-Martin Frie & Louise Rabier, 2019. "Deepening the EU’s Single Market for Services," IMF Working Papers 2019/269, International Monetary Fund.
    2. Natália Barbosa & Maria Helena Guimarães & Ana Paula Faria, 2017. "Single Market Non-Compliance: How Relevant Is The Institutional Setting?," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 62(05), pages 1115-1135, December.
    3. Egan Michelle & Guimarães Helena, 2013. "Compliance in the single market," Business and Politics, De Gruyter, vol. 14(4), pages 1-28, January.

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    Keywords

    EUROPEAN UNION; SINGLE MARKET; INTEGRATION; TRADE BARRIERS;
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    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F17 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Forecasting and Simulation

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