The introduction of the euro was initially expected to boost trade by an enormous percentage. Following many downward …

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 …