Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/129043 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 494
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
According to difference-in-difference estimates business cycle synchronisation and similarity in sector structures between acceding and pre-existing regions reduced after Eastern Enlargement. Results for Northern enlargement are more ambiguous. In both enlargements, however, region pairs affected by enlargement with highly synchronised business cycles before enlargement experienced smaller increases in business cycle synchronisation and weaker reductions of structural differences relative to similar unaffected region pairs than region pairs with less synchronised business cycles. Similarly, affected regions that were more similar in terms of sector structure before enlargement experienced larger reductions in structural differences and business cycle synchronisation than similar unaffected region pairs.
Subjects: 
business cycle correlation
sector specialisation
EU enlargement
difference-in-difference
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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