The consensus back in 2008 – ten years after the introduction of the euro – was that the adoption of a common currency … had made a limited impact of around 2% in total on the trade flows of the first wave of euro area countries (Baldwin et al …., 2008). Since then, six more countries have joined the euro area, and firms have internationalised their production …

studies examining the effect of euro on bilateral trade and we found that publication bias in this area of research is … diminishing. This study finds the effect of euro on bilateral trade to be between 2 and 6%. Using meta regression we conclude that …

no evidence of a euro effect on trade flows among early euro adopters up to the year 2002. Second, this finding is robust … to extending the sample period to incorporate data up to 2013, covering five additional euro accessions. Third, while … there is no robust evidence of a euro effect, there is evidence that intra-EU trade flows have expanded faster than the …

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 common to the entire euro area. We use a dynamic specification …