Financial Market Integration and Growth : Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in the European Union

Introduction -- The Role of Banks in Financial Integration: Some New Theory and Evidence from New EU Members -- Interdependence Between Foreign Exchange Markets and Stock Markets in Selected European Countries -- The Transatlantic Banking Crisis: Lessons, EU Reforms and G20 Issues -- Financial System and Innovations: Determinants of Early Stage Venture Capital in Europe -- Evolving Corporate Financing Patterns in Europe: Is There Convergence?- The Financial System in Spain and Portugal: Institutions and Structure of the Market -- Corporate Governance and the "Hybridisation" of Financial Sectors -- Different Modes of Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland - A Theoretical Analysis -- Aspects of Market Integration in a Transition Economy -- Trade and FDI Related Effects of the Monetary Union and Structural Adjustment in the Central European New Member States of the EU