The EU single market at 25

The European Union's border-free "single market" came into effect on 1 January 1993, and to mark its 25th anniversary a special issue of the Review of Industrial Organization journal will be published early next year with eight papers on a variety of topics related to the single market. The guest editors of the special journal issue are Cambridge Judge Business school faculty members Michael Pollitt, Professor of Business Economics, and Christos Genakos, University Senior Lecturer in Economics, who organised a conference at Cambridge Judge on 20 April entitled "Review of Industrial Organization Celebrating 25 Years of the EU Single Market". "Several presentations focused on how significant progress has been made in integration over the past quarter-century, but a lot of work remains to be done in certain areas," says Christos. "Some of the impressive institutional reform has not yet had a dramatic effect on consumers, so that's an area we'll look closely at in coming years." Four of the people presenting papers to the conference shared their thoughts on the day for a special Cambridge Judge podcast: Professor Yannis Katsoulakos, Athens University of Economics and Business; Professor Margaret Kyle, Mines ParisTech and the Centre for European Policy Research; Professor Martin Cave, London School of Economics; and Professor Michael Pollitt of Cambridge Judge Business School.