Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145302 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 213
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
The Schengen agreement has guaranteed unchecked travel across internal EUborders since 1995. Has it also facilitated trade flows? Our econometric analysissuggests that Schengen has boosted trade by 3% on average (equivalent to a drop in tariffs by 0.7 percentage points). Goods trade is more robustly affected than services, and peripheral countries benefit more than central ones.
Subjects: 
Trade Integration
Schengen Agreement
Gravity
JEL: 
F10
F15
N74
N94
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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