solvency of the main euro area insurance sectors. We model the balance sheet of an insurance company encompassing both life and … non-life business and we calibrate it using country level data to make it representative of the major euro area insurance …

involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand … banking in the past. In large part this heterogeneity can be traced to differences in forecasting models. While some …

crisis of 1864-66. Next, we describe the particular banking sector of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of …

output for the Euro area, the United States, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Particular attention is paid to time …

This paper derives indicators of the severity and structure of banking system risk from asymptotic interdependencies … the euro area, we can also compare banking system stability between the two largest economies in the world. For Europe we …

EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period … 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to assess the existence of a single and integrated European banking … market. We find evidence in favor of a single European banking market characterized by cost and profit meta …