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Spillovers and strategic interaction in immigration policies Görlach, Joseph-Simon Motz, Nicolás Peer Policy Spillovers Policy Equilibrium Migration Asylum Policy Geografía económica 5310 Economía Internacional Asylum policies are interdependent across countries: policy choices in one country can affect refugee flows into neighbouring countries and may provoke policy changes there, in an a priori unknown direction. We formulate a dynamic model of refugees’ location choices and of the strategic interaction among destinations that we fit to Syrian refugee migration to Europe. We find that south and southeastern European countries view recognition rates as strategic substitutes, whereas the same policies can be strategic complements in northern Europe. Our findings imply that regression frameworks which use cross-country variation to estimate the effects of recognition rates on immigration underestimate (overestimate) the effect if this policy is a strategic substitute (complement). Depto. de Economía Aplicada, Pública y Política Fac. de Derecho TRUE pub 2026-01-09T12:47:19Z 2026-01-09T12:47:19Z 2020-12-22 journal article EVoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129767 1468-2702 1468-2710 10.1093/jeg/lbaa035 eng open access application/pdf Oxford University Press