Euros and Zeros: The Common Currency Effect on Trade in New Goods

26 Pages Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last revised: 19 Aug 2022

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Richard E. Baldwin

University of Geneva - Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Virginia Di Nino

Bank of Italy

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Date Written: November 2006

Abstract

This paper tests whether trade in new goods is partially responsible for the pro-trade effects of the euro and provides a measure of the size of the effect. It works with a very large data set (about 16 million observations) covering twenty countries at the most disaggregated level of trade data that is publicly available. Using predictions from a heterogeneous-firms trade model in a multi-country environment to structure our empirical model, we find that the euro had a positive impact on trade overall. Our findings provide supportive but not conclusive evidence for the new-goods hypothesis. We also determined the pro-trade effect of euro-usage on non-Euroland nations trading with euro-users. We confirmed the absence of trade diversion for non-Eurozone EU members with sizeable overall increase comparable to that of members.

Suggested Citation

Baldwin, Richard E. and Di Nino, Virginia, Euros and Zeros: The Common Currency Effect on Trade in New Goods (November 2006). NBER Working Paper No. w12673, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=942968

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