The Economic and Monetary Union’s Effect on(International) Trade:the Case of Slovenia Before Euro Adoption

The main objective of the following article is to present the key findings of the existent research in thefield of the influence the introduction of the euro had on the trade of the member states of the Economicand Monetary Union (EMU). The intention of this article is also to inspire further research (especiallyconcerning the effect of the euro on the Slovene foreign trade). Recent empirical researches show that thetrade among the members of the EMU has grown on average by 10–15 % due to the use of a commoncurrency and there was also an increase in trade with the non-member states. The trade benefits of theentry of new countries into the EMU will thus not be the same as the benefits of the initial formation ofthe EMU in the nineties. This claim has been tested on the example of Slovenia. A regression analysis oftime series shows that there has been a positive effect on Slovenia’s exports into and a negative effect onits imports from the eurozone precisely at the time of the creation of the EMU in 1999....