TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Campos, Nauro F.
AU  - Eichenauer, Vera Z.
AU  - Sturm, Jan-Egbert
        TI  - Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
        PY  - 2020/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13706
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13706
        AB  - This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time windows and a larger sample of countries than previous studies, we confirm that the euro triggered product but neither labour nor financial market reforms. Differently from previous studies, we find that: (a) the Single Market has similar effects to the euro, and (b) sectoral heterogeneity appears less important in explaining the economic impacts of reforms than country heterogeneity.
        KW  - european integration
KW  - structural reforms
KW  - Single Market
KW  - Euro
KW  - sectoral heterogeneity
        ER  -