The Economic Impact of the European Integration on the Netherlands. A Quantitative Analysis of Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investments

The main objective and motivation of this thesis is to provide the reader with a quantitative analysis focusing on the impact of the European Integration on the Netherlands exclusively. To this end, two major and one minor research questions are addressed. The first main question focuses on the impact that European Integration has on the Dutch foreign trade. The thesis applies a dynamic panel analysis, to measure the effect of the European Economic Community and the European Union on the foreign trade of the Netherlands in the 1961-2000 period. The results indicate that the integration had a s... Mehr ...