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Breaking Badly: The Currency Union Effect on Trade

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  • Douglas L. Campbell

    (New Economic School)

  • Aleksandr Chentsov

    (New Economic School)

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As several European countries debate entering, or exiting, the euro, a key policy question is how much currency unions (CUs) affect trade. Recently, Glick and Rose (2016) estimated that CUs increase trade on average by 100%, and that the euro has increased trade by 50%. In this paper, we find that other major geopolitical events correlated with CU switches drive the large estimated impact of CUs on trade. We find that these estimates are sensitive to intuitive controls and to dynamic specifications. Overall, we estimate that the impact of CUs on trade is often indistinct from zero, depending on the specification and controls.

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  • Douglas L. Campbell & Aleksandr Chentsov, 2020. "Breaking Badly: The Currency Union Effect on Trade," Working Papers w0265, New Economic School (NES).
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    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
    • F54 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism

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