This paper examines if and how deeper economic integration with high-income nations impacts industrial performance. It exploits Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 as a source of variation in the degree of market integration with Germany. Using data on Polish manufacturing firms over 1995–2013, the paper finds that EU accession was followed by significant within-firm growth in output and productivity, notably in industries in which Germany...
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2022/03/29
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政策研究报告
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WPS9988
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2022/03/29
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Economic Integration, Industrial Structure, and Catch-up Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from Poland