Potential new entrants to the European Union from Central and Eastern European countries face many challenges to achieve financial convergence with the existing EU nations. Using detailed case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and analysis of cross country...

Building on Vinhas de Souza (and Vinhas de Souza and Tudela), this chapter briefly describes the historical process of financial liberalization and integration of Baltic and Central European Countries (BCECs) since the 1990s. It investigates the hypotheses that the type of financial integration...

Central Eastern European Countries (CEECs) went through a process of deep financial integration with advanced European countries, spurred by the entry in the European Union. Financial integration took place through an unprecedented entry of foreign banks in local banking markets, which led to a...

Interdependence and integration in emerging European financial markets / Jonathan A. Batten, Colm Kearney -- A comparative study of bank efficiency in central and Eastern Europe : the role of foreign ownership / Peter Zajc -- A comparative study of banks balance sheets in the European Union and...

Although there is no single yardstick to gauge the degree of integration, there is ample evidence that financial markets in the euro area have some way to go before national demarcation lines will effectively disappear and financial market integration is satisfactory. While there has been a push...

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...

1. Theory of financial integration and achievements in the European Union / Daniel Stavarek, Iveta Repkova and Katarina Gajdosova -- 2. Financial integration at times of financial instability / Jan Babecky, Lubos Komarek and Zlatuse Komarkova -- 3. Integration of financial markets in the...