This volume contains a collection of papers, commentaries and speeches concerning the first decade of the euro and the …

edition of the publication u0093Bond markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union … this third edition has been extended to include all thirteen non-euro area EU member states and two accession countries …

economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …

This paper investigates whether comovements between euro area equity returns at national and industry level have … changed after the introduction of the euro. By adopting a regression quantile-based methodology, we find that after 1999 the … degree of comovements among euro area national equity markets has augmented. By explicitly controlling for the impact of …

euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi …

Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms … remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro’s effect on financial integration using data on bilateral … euro’s impact on financial integration is primarily driven by eliminating the currency risk. Legislative …

process. We identify the impact of (i) joining the European Union and (ii) joining the Euro on cross-border M&As. We show that …

’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in …’s financial markets throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The introduction of the euro appears to have indeed played a major role …