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The disciplinary effect of the single market on Swedish firms

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Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

381-398

Publication/Series

Open Economies Review

Volume

16

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Sweden
  • European Union
  • integration
  • panel data
  • market power

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1573-708X