To Adopt or Not to Adopt: Heterogeneous Trade Effects of the Euro
是否采用欧元:欧元对贸易影响的异质性
Two decades of research on the euro's trade effects have produced estimates ranging from 4% to 30%, with no consensus on the magnitude. We find evidence that this divergence may reflect genuine heterogeneity in the euro's trade effect across country pairs rather than methodological differences alone. Using Eurostat data on 15 EU countries (12 eurozone members plus Denmark, Sweden, and the UK as controls) from 1995-2015, we estimate that euro adoption increased bilateral…