We analyze the effect of a major central bank digital currency (CBDC) - the digital euro - on the payment industry to … firms increase in response to positive announcements on the digital euro. Bank stocks do not react. We estimate a loss in …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …

of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. We use corporate-level data from ten countries that adopted the euro, the … three EU countries that did not join EMU, as well as Norway and Switzerland. We show that the introduction of the euro has … supports the view that the introduction of the euro has lowered firms' cost of capital by eliminating currency risks among the …

In this paper we study the changes in corporate valuations induced by the adoption of the euro as the common currency … in Europe. We use corporate-evel data from ten countries that adopted the euro, the three EU countries that did not start … using the euro, as well as Norway and Switzerland. We show that the introduction of the euro has increased Tobin's Q …

The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and … some advocate the euro despite its economic problems because of its assumed favorable effects on European political …

. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our … central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro will lead European prices to become more insulated from exchange …

conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of … contingent Euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of" Stage 3, allows a highly credible preannouncement of the …

. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … pricing models. We use a synthetic Euro excess return along with a Yen excess return to assess country equity sensitivities to …

, euro area and UK data points to a substantial deviation from that invariance prediction: expectations of interest rate …