THE BORDER POPULATION EFFECTS OF EU INTEGRATION* |
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| Authors: | Steven Brakman Harry Garretsen Charles van Marrewijk Abdella Oumer |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, The Netherlands. E‐mail: S.Brakman@rug.nl;2. aculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, The Netherlands. E‐mail: J.H.Garretsen@rug.nl;3. Utrecht University School of Economics, P.O. Box 80125, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands. E‐mail: J.G.M.vanMarrewijk@uu.nl;4. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, The Netherlands. E‐mail: A.M.Oumer@rug.nl |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Border cities or regions are in theory more affected by the EU integration process than more central locations as it more drastically influences their transaction costs and market potential. We find a positive empirical effect of EU enlargement as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders. This effect is active for a limited distance (70 km) and time period (30 years), and is more important for large cities and regions. Despite this positive EU enlargement effect along the border, a location close to a border remains a burden in view of the (larger) negative general border effect. |
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