Bijlsma, Michiel J.; Zwart, Gijsbert T. J. - 2013
We compare the structure of the financial sectors of the EU27, Japan and the United States, looking at a set of 23 … components analysis, we identify robust groups of EU countries. One group consists of the eastern European members that entered … the EU more recently.These have substantially smaller financial sectors than the old member states. A second group can be …