depending on market segment. Retail banking markets are generally seen to be much less integrated than other segments of … substantially across euro area countries. The purpose of this paper is to assess integration of retail banking in the euro area from … provide evidence of a process of convergence in retail banking credit interest rates for households and non …

We seek to contribute to both the finance-growth literature and the community banking literature by testing the effects …

synchronized with the whole market, similarly, in developed markets, lower banking freedom enhances bank stock price synchronicity …

Making use of ten years of daily data, this paper examines whether banking sector co-movements be-tween the three … largest Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) can be attributed to contagion or to interdependence. Our tests based … on simple unadjusted correlation analysis uncover evidence of conta-gion between all pairs of countries. Adjusting for …

method to model the spreading of the contagion in the interbank network by implementing an epidemiologic model. Actual data … on European banks is exploited with simulated scale-free networks. The average contagion affected 70% and 40% of European … of contagion. Bank clustering, large incoming interbank loans and bank reputation are more prominent explanatory …