Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101233 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 452
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
As the countries of Europe have successfully managed to move the region's integration forward step by step, the European experience offers three possible models for regional integration with different depths: a free trade arrangement, a single market, and a common currency area. In this paper, we examine the effect of these three different models of regional integration on total factor productivity (TFP) to assess the long-run growth implication of each model. Our findings suggest that joining a regional grouping changes the way participating economies grow, no matter which model of regional integration is used: domestically powered growth becomes less important, and regionally powered growth becomes the new source of growth. As existing theory identifies knowledge creation and its spillovers as key drivers of economic growth, regionally powered growth is expected to become relatively more important with a higher level of intra-regional dependence on research and development (R&D) spillovers. Of the three models for regional integration, the free trade arrangement is found to be the most effective in promoting intra-regional dependence on R&D spillovers. We find that largely negative windfall effects on TFP are associated with the other two models.
Subjects: 
regional integration
economic growth
total factor productivity
JEL: 
F02
O31
O40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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