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Deadline 2025/02/17 - Research Conference on the EU Single Market, 10 April 2025, Brussels - Call for papers

The European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs organises the third edition of the Research Conference on the EU Single Market, following those organised in December 2022 and in February 2024. The conference will be held in person in Brussels, and will be web-streamed. 

It will bring together top researchers to present research findings and policy insights related to the EU single market. The conference will seek contributions about several aspects of the single market, looking at the historical perspective since its establishment and discussing also the perspectives for further integration, trying to understand its potential. While most of the topics are inherently linked to economic analyses, the aim is to get a comprehensive and multidisciplinary outlook of the single market. 

Topics of interest for the contributing papers include

  1. Single market and competitiveness
    1. Single market as a driver and enabler of competitiveness.
    2. The effects of market size and market fragmentation on productivity.
    3. Product market reforms: tax- and regulatory burden, including on firms of different size.
    4. Challenges and opportunities of the single market for services (with a special focus on digital).
  2. Integration within the single market
    1. Long-term trends in integration, along the four dimensions of goods, services, labour, and capital.
    2. Integration and deepening of the single market in relevant areas: energy, telecommunications, financial markets, defence.
    3. Current challenges to further integration: which are the main barriers?
    4. Distributional effects of single market integration: income and purchasing power.
  3. Industrial policies and investment in the single market
    1. Who does what and how? Coordinated approach with common instruments vs national approaches.
    2. Instruments for industrial policy and governance of the single market. 
    3. Quantifying the untapped potential of further integration in services.
  4. The external dimension of the single market
    1. Supply chains analysis and open strategic autonomy, including strategic dependencies and their impact on the single market.
    2. Economic security: what role for the single market?
    3. Single market and resilience to external shocks: to what extent does it shield from global crises? Is it a factor for de-risking?
    4. Future enlargement: risks and opportunities.

Authors interested in presenting their research should submit their papers to GROW-SM-CONFERENCEatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-SM-CONFERENCE[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) 

The deadline for submissions is Monday, February 17, 2025 at 12h00.

Authors of accepted papers will be notified of acceptance by Monday, March 10, 2025. Presenters should plan to present in person. All papers presented at the conference will be posted on the websites of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and published in the Single Market Economics Papers series.

More information

Please contact GROW-SM-CONFERENCEatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-SM-CONFERENCE[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu) for further information.