This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …

When, about twenty years ago, the Euro was created, one objective was to facilitate intra-European trade by reducing … transaction costs. Has the Euro delivered? Using sectoral trade data from 1995 to 2014 and applying structural gravity modeling … estimation results into a quantitative general equilibrium model of world trade, we find that EMU has increased real incomes in …

analyzed in combination with the situation in the rest of the euro area. To take this into account, a small macroeconometric … model is constructed that models the euro area as consisting of two regions, Germany and the rest of the euro area. The rest … monetary policy or of exchange rate changes on economic activity in Germany and the euro area. …

The paper presents an estimation of Euroland's foreign trade with the rest of the world based on the exports and … - using an error correction model. The estimation results are used to forecast Euroland's exports in 1998 and 1999. …