of the euro area. With a 1980-2001 sample, no consistent significant trade effects from the 1999 creation of EMU are … found, using dummies for the 1999-2001 period. Treating EMU not as a single event but as a part of a long-term integration …

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 …-effect directly from data that include EMU observations. Using a dynamic panel model for annual bilateral exports, we find that the …

European treaty. Moreover, as long as the distance to the core of the EMU countries is still large, real convergence criteria …

impact on "new" and "old" EMU members. By applying a Poisson estimator and focusing on a sample of 38 countries, our results … relatively large euro's effect on bilateral trade for the "new" EMU countries. We also and no evidence of trade diversion, thus …

This paper examines the impact of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on trade within the euro area. Using panel …;gravityquot; model of trade, the panel analysis employs cointegration techniques to obtain reliable point estimates of EMU trade effects …. Cross-country differences with respect to EMU trade gains and underlying factors accounting for these differences are also …

majority of the EMU members, at sectoral level there are some countries in which the impact of the euro has been negative. The …

We re-visit the evidence about the trade benefits of European Monetary Union (EMU), focusing on the experience of … there is no robust evidence of a euro effect, there is evidence that intra-EU trade flows have expanded faster than the … significant boost to their trade from joining EMU. …