ارزيابي تأثير ارز ديجيتال بر روابط تجاري منطقه اي: مورد مطالعاتيكشورهاي منتخب اوراسيا و آسه آن

Abstract With the ever-increasing expansion of technology,digitalization of economy and its effects on all aspects of human life, and the globalization of smart services, significant and fundamental changes in the process of economic activities, including trade and international financial exchanges, have caused new currencies in the form of digital currency should be formed on bilateral and multilateral trade relations between countries and even between the economic sectors of member countries of economic unio‎ns. The purpose of this study was to eva‎luate the effect of the digital currency rate on the trade flows of selected countries of the Eurasian Economic unio‎n and ASEAN. Based on this, these questions are answered that what effect does a digital currency (Bitcoin) as a means of payment have on the trade flows of the selected member countries? Can the economic similarity affect the trade flow of selected member countries of these unio‎ns? To answer these questions, an econometric model based on the trade gravity has been defined and estimated using panel data of selected countries that are members of these unio‎ns in the period of 2015-2022. The emprical results obtained from the estimation of the trade gravity model for each of the unio‎ns indicate that the effect of the digital currency rate on the trade flow of the selected member countries of ASEAN and Eurasia has been positive and significant, so that the expansion of transactions with Digital currency has resulted in increasing trade relations between countries. The sign of the variable coefficient of economic similarity is negative and significant, and its effect is in line with expectations, so that the less the income gap between the member countries and the more income convergence is created, the more the trade relations between the countries will expand. Therefore, the main hypothesis of the research, that is, the effectiveness of digital currency on trade relations between ASEAN and Eurasia, is accepted.