We examine the bilateral composition of international bond portfolios for the euro area and the individual EMU member … countries. We find considerable support for “euro area bias”: EMU member countries disproportionately invest in one another … linkages in explaining asymmetries across EMU member countries in terms of their outward and inward bond investments vis …

change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steadystate inflation and inflation … uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly owing to …

In this paper we address the question on whether EMU has amplified or dampened intra euro area divergencies, by looking … to 2009. Our main result is that EMU does not appear to have materially changed the transmission mechanism of … idiosyncratic monetary shocks. The net effect of EMU, therefore, has been to reduce the relative performance variability. The …

, we show that the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) eased the access to the equity market and, to a larger extent …, the bond market; thereby, enhancing regional financial integration in the euro area. Beside the effect of the EMU, the …

using high-frequency bond yield data for France, Germany, Italy and Spain. We find that Economic and Monetary Union (EMU … substantial increase in the anchoring of long-term inflation expectations since EMU, particularly for Italy and Spain, which since …

The harmonisation of fiscal and economic policy within the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had a considerable impact …

investors preferred portfolio assets of countries where the central bank gave relative importance to money. As for EMU, once … among euro area countries have increased due to the catalyst effect of EMU. Country's shares in the world market portfolio …, home bias, initial degree of misallocation across countries, past returns, diversification benefits and EMU can explain 35 …