International Asset Holdings and the Euro

Barbara Pels

The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series from IIIS

Abstract: The establishment of a monetary union in Europe in 1999 has eliminated exchange rate risk within the euro area and has led to a more unified financial framework. It has been established in the literature that the euro has led to a disproportional increase in bilateral asset holdings within the euro area. This paper builds on this evidence and answers the question whether this has been a one-off effect, or whether the euro effect in intra-euro area bilateral asset holdings has changed over time. We show, using a gravity framework, that the proportional increase in bilateral asset holdings took place in the early years of the European monetary union and was a unique event. The data used are bilateral data on equity and bond holdings, provided by the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey of the IMF for the years 1997, and 2001 until 2006.

Keywords: international asset trade; gravity equation; euro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F36 F41 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-07
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