The disciplinary effect of the single market on Swedish firms
(2005) In Open Economies Review 16(4). p.381-398- Abstract
- In the 1980s it became increasingly clear that the European Community market was still segmented by national borders because of non-tariff barriers to trade. A major objective of the Single Market Program in 1992 was to remove these barriers, thereby enforcing intra-union competition. In this paper, a panel of Swedish firm-level data is used to evaluate whether domestic market power has been curtailed as a consequence of the SMP and of the Swedish membership in the European Union in 1995. Evidence of increased competition emerges, as price-cost margins have declined in industries with high non-tariff barriers prior to 1992.
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- author
- Gullstrand, Joakim LU and Johansson, Helena LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Sweden, European Union, integration, panel data, market power
- in
- Open Economies Review
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 381 - 398
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- wos:000234481500004
- scopus:30844433761
- ISSN
- 1573-708X
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11079-005-4743-3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 647dd353-bdf4-40fa-8045-59297f4ce479 (old id 894165)
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