To study the effect of the euro on international goods trade one typically estimates a panel model for the level of … euro is only present at the end of the sample, this may have led to an upward bias in existing euro estimates to help … have different effects across country-pairs. Data on industrialized countries over 1967-2002 show the existing euro effects …

A major economic reason for the introduction of the euro was its supposedly positive effect on intra-EMU trade …. Existing studies examine this suspicion indirectly using non-EMU data and report ambiguous results. We estimate the euro … euro has significantly increased trade, with an effect of 4% in the first year and cumulating to around 40% in the long …

process. We identify the impact of (i) joining the European Union and (ii) joining the Euro on cross-border M&As. We show that …'s financial system and product market regulations). -- Cross Mergers and Acquisitions ; Gravity Equation ; Euro …

This paper investigates whether comovements between euro area equity returns at national and industry level have … changed after the introduction of the euro. By adopting a regression quantile-based methodology, we find that after 1999 the … degree of comovements among euro area national equity markets has augmented. By explicitly controlling for the impact of …

In this paper we investigate the impact of the euro integration process on the drivers of FDI inflows. We show … bilateral gravity models of FDI inflows into euro area countries, we show that the euro facilitates intra-euro area vertical FDI … countries located outside the monetary union increase. Such flows are however not more likely be directed towards euro area …

the euro area. Equally importantly, economies with a weaker track record in terms of economic and institutional quality …

's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in …'s financial markets throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the euro appears to have indeed played a major role … interesting for other countries with weak institutions considering adopting a currency based on stronger institutions. -- Euro …

We investigate which variables have supported growth in the euro area over the last 30 years. This is a challenging … the original euro area countries covering the period between 1990Q1 and 2016Q4. Using the Weighted-Average Least Squares … for all countries in the sample. An improvement in competitiveness matters for growth in the overall euro area in the long …