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...

Economic globalization has intensified since the 1980s and created faster channels of international interdependence and an accelerating technology race. In this new asymmetric world economy the EU is facing a dynamic and flexible US system which takes advantage of the global quest for foreign...

A. Investment, Financial Markets, New Economy Dynamics and Growth in Transition Countries -- Comment -- B. Growth Dynamics in Transition Economies: The Role of Financial Development -- Comment -- C. Dynamic Causal Links between the Russian Stock Exchange and Selected International Stock Markets...