In person icon The Single Market: Ever More Closer or More Divided?

Abstract

This panel examines the Single Market, examining how it has become more unified or more divided. Papers in this panel examine for instance the extent in which there has been economic convergence among the member states. The papers have a specific focus on the domestic actors and structures to make that assessment. They also examine public opinion pertaining to the EU Single Market and what factors determine how citizens view the Single Market. Another theme that is discusses is how State Aids are used to provide public goods and how state aids may be permissible given the rules of the Single Market which may give rise to heterogenous national industrial policies. Finally some issues that are addressed are the role of the infrastructure, such as the electricity grid, and how underinvestment (and lack of regulation) in these structures impacts the costs and benefits of integration.

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Governing international flows of people and finance in the EU single market: How government navigation of competing demands result in perpetuated and fragmented economic strategies	View Paper Details
New or Old Politics? Understanding public preferences for an EU single market	View Paper Details
Electricity knows no borders, but states do: How unregulated interconnection is reversing cross-border grid integration	View Paper Details