Reconsidering the Trade-Creating Effects of a Currency Union
21 Pages Posted: 21 Jul 2001
Date Written: June 19, 2001
Abstract
This paper reconsiders recent empirical evidence found by Andrew Rose that countries adopting a common currency will triple their bilateral trade. We find that this large estimated effect is due to estimation bias arising from missing and/or misspecified time-invariant factors, rather than to the adoption of a common currency. Using the most general specification of time-invariant factors, our results indicate that a common currency actually leads to a small reduction in trade over a five-year period, although this result is not statistically different from zero. We also find that over ten- and twenty-year periods, trade volumes are more than halved by the adoption of a common currency.
Keywords: Currency unions, gravity model
JEL Classification: F33, F15
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