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 …

moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …

euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's "dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi … dollar ; euro ; German dominance hypothesis …

-border bank lending in US dollars, and particularly in euro, is highly concentrated in a small number of countries. The UK is … central in the international network of loans denominated in euro, although there are tentative signs that this role has … optimisation strategies. The empirical analysis suggests that euro-denominated loans face the "tyranny of distance", in line with …

, Norwegian krone, Swedish krona, Swiss franc, and euro exchange rates (against the US dollar) during the period 1994-2003. Using … formal decision to proceed with the euro was made in December 1996 and at the time of the actual introduction of the euro in …