Decomposing the Economic Costs and Benefits of Accession to the EU: the Swiss Case

Jean-Marie Grether, Tobias Müller
2001 Journal of Economic Integration  
This paper proposes a decomposition of the likely effects of a "deep" regional integration arrangement for a small country. It is based on a steady-state general equilibrium model which allows to capture the long-term effects of a variety of factors, including the reduction of non-tariff barriers, immigration, budgetary transfers and monetary integration. Particular care is given to the modeling of wealth accumulation, with savings endogenized on the basis of an overlapping generation
more » ... The effects of product standardization in manufacturing are simulated on the basis of ex-post estimates of the pro-competitive effects of the Single Market Program. • JEL Classifications: F12, F15, C68 •
doi:10.11130/jei.2001.16.2.203 fatcat:hxqy3u7snbb3hbiigdb2vybtk4