TY - CEPII
A1 - Antoine Berthou
A1 - Lionel Fontagné
TI - The Euro and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade: Evidence from French Firm Level Data
IS - 2008-06
T3 - Working Papers
KW - Trade
KW - Export margins
KW - Euro
N2 - We improve the study of the effects of a Currency Union on trade. Using data on French exports at the firm level, we compute an intensive and extensive margins of French exports - with a variety dimension - over the period 1998-2003. Estimation results indicate that nominal exchange rate volatility has a negative effect, which translates into the intensive and extensive margins. We also provide some evidence that the euro had an additional positive effect on the extensive margin; this effect is not related to the reduced nominal exchange rate volatility. This suggests a new varieties effect of the euro.
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