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How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...
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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 …
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To study the effect of the euro on international goods trade one typically estimates a panel model for the level of trade. Trade levels increase over time, and we show that this is not fully explained by the included regressors. Because the euro is only present at the end of the sample, this may...
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In this paper we study the effect of the single currency across industries for euro area members. This analysis may help to shed light on the main factors influencing the euro effect on trade flows. We intend to verify whether these factors are specific to individual sectors and/or countries or...
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majority of the EMU members, at sectoral level there are some countries in which the impact of the euro has been negative. The …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5% for Poland and 30% for …
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