The impact of monetary union on trade prices

Anderton Robert (), Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni ()
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Anderton Robert: European Central Bank, Postal: Kaiserstr. 29, 60311 Frankfurt am Main , Germany, http://www.ecb.europa.eu

Journal of Financial Transformation, 2007, vol. 19, pages 35-48

Abstract: Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. Firstly, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel [Rogoff (1996), Goldberg and Knetter (1997)]. Secondly, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among members [Rose (2001)]. Putting these together, we see that formation of a monetary union may induce changes that help harmonize inflation rates. The effect might be large if the elimination of exchange rate volatility simultaneously leads to a large increase in intra-union trade and a big increase in the speed at which price shocks are transmitted across members’ goods markets. This paper investigates part of this mechanism and finds that monetary union may indeed result in faster cross-border transmission of price movements via the import and export price channel which, in turn, would tend to homogenize price movements across the member countries of a monetary union.

Keywords: exchange rate volatility; monetary union; market segmentation; no-arbitrage bands; harmonisation of price movements; price convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 F15 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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