Regional Versus Global Integration of Euro Zone Retail Banking Markets: Understanding the Recent Evidence from Price-Based Integration Measures [PDF]
This study investigates the current state of euro zone banking market integration by applying convergence and cointegration measures to mortgage and short-term corporate loan markets.
Kleimeier,Stefanie, Sander,Harald
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Disequilibria Management at the Euro Area Level
EIRP Proceedings, 2010 The current crisis has shown that an economic integration through a political and monetary approach is wrong. It seems to be more appropriate a social and economic approach, meaning both a betterpreparedness of the new countries joining the euro area and
Iulia Lupu +4 more
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Integration in euro area retail banking markets – convergence of credit interest rates [PDF]
Since the introduction of the single currency in 1999, major progress has been made towards achieving an integrated European capital and financial market.
Vajanne, Laura
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Should the UK Join the Euro Zone? Evidence from a Synthetic OCA Assessment [PDF]
The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011 Based on optimal currency area theories, this paper applies the empirical methodology of structural VAR to revisit the question of whether UK should join or not the Euro zone.
Saucier, Philippe, Kang-Soek Lee
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Euro Area Enlargement: Dilemmas and Prospects
Ekonomika, 2008 Almost all member states of the new European Union declared their wish to introduce the euro in the near future. The decision of the European Union institutions concerning Lithuania revealed the peculiarities and problems of the euro area enlargement to ...
Arūnas Dulkys
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Current account imbalances in the Euro area. Bruegel Third-Party Papers, July 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 [The authors]...explain how the EU has increased the tendency of capital flow from relatively rich to relatively poor countries in the euro area, which is a sign of proper functioning of the euro.
Ahearne, Alan +2 more
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Euro area banking sector integration: using hierarchical cluster analysis techniques [PDF]
In this study we apply cluster analysis techniques, including a novel smoothing method, to detect some basic patterns and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries.
Puigvert Gutiérrez, Josep Maria +1 more
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Euro: the engine of integration or the seed of dissolution?
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2008 The common currency Euro is considered one of the biggest achievements of the European political and economic integration. However, it is necessary to stress that Euro was always first and foremost a political feat.
A. Rusek
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Sovereign bond market integration: the euro, trading platforms and globalisation [PDF]
Study on sovereign bond market integration and the role of the euro, trading platforms and globalisation. We disentangle different driving factors of sovereign bond market integration by studying yield co-movements of EMU countries, the UK, the US and 16
Guntram B. Wolff, Alexander Schulz
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Introduction : Euro‐outsiders and the politics of asymmetry
, 2005 This special issue of one of the leading journals specialising on European integration, examines the general conceptual,. political and practical challenges confronting those EU countries - labelled here as the euro-outsiders - that have not adopted the ...
Miles, Lee,
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