In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their … domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past … several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage and …

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 …

balances, the common monetary policy may not be optimal for all of them. Euro area imbalances for potential output and for …

It is often disregarded that the euro is first of all a public good based on common institutions such the European …

The paper uses fiscal reaction functions for a panel of euro-area countries to investigate whether euro membership has … the euro. While we find some evidence for such a loss in prudence, the results are not robust to changes in the …

This paper studies the dynamics of volatility transmission between Central European currencies and euro/dollar foreign … significant spillovers running from euro/dollar to the Central European foreign exchange markets. To measure the overall magnitude … spillover index, and show that volatility spillovers tend to increase in periods characterized by market uncertainty …

We estimate that the euro has increased trade within the eurozone by about 26 percent and trade between the eurozone … significant and substantial effects on the extensive margin of trade. The euro effects were concentrated to semi-finished and …

introduction of the Euro in 1999 are then examined introducing a dummy variable. Overall, it appears that post-1999 steady … determined endogenously, the adjustment is found to have taken place before the introduction of the Euro …

This paper provides an update on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) estimates for 12 Euro area (EA) countries. First …-through elasticities, we find very weak evidence of a decline around the inception of the euro in 1999. However, our results reveal that a …