We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We...

We model EU countries’ bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether “old” and “new” EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether “new” ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than...

The values of comparative price levels vary greatly in individual EU countries and depend on many different economic factors. The EU countries were divided into two distinguishable groups. Both OLS and robust regressions were used to analyze the influence of the comparative price levels on...

Zum 01. Mai 2011 entfielen die bis dahin verbliebenen Übergangsregelungen der fünften EU-Osterweiterung, womit die acht mittel- und osteuropäischen Mitgliedsstaaten fortan als gleichberechtigte Mitglieder der Staatengemeinschaft gelten. Aktuell bestehen weiterhin deutliche Unterschiede bei...