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 financial system and product market regulations). -- Cross Mergers and Acquisitions ; Gravity Equation ; Euro …

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 …

In this paper we investigate the impact of the euro integration process on the drivers of FDI inflows. We show … bilateral gravity models of FDI inflows into euro area countries, we show that the euro facilitates intra-euro area vertical FDI … countries located outside the monetary union increase. Such flows are however not more likely be directed towards euro area …

the euro area. Equally importantly, economies with a weaker track record in terms of economic and institutional quality …

's prosperity. The paper focuses on political 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 … interesting for other countries with weak institutions considering adopting a currency based on stronger institutions. -- Euro …

We investigate which variables have supported growth in the euro area over the last 30 years. This is a challenging … the original euro area countries covering the period between 1990Q1 and 2016Q4. Using the Weighted-Average Least Squares … for all countries in the sample. An improvement in competitiveness matters for growth in the overall euro area in the long …

recent euro periphery crisis. Trade costs can limit the pass-through of internal devaluation on export prices. Using data on … relative to domestic prices in the euro periphery. Furthermore, VAT (in theory trade neutral, but in practice much higher on … the euro periphery fiscal devaluation programs, and show that it can account for the most salient features of the data …

We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the … autoregression (VAR) model. We argue that the euro area is more appropriate through the lens of empirical OCA properties when the … relative importance of common symmetric shocks is high, but, at the same time, is not overly dispersed across euro area member …

of the monetary union, have on the rest of the world. Disentangling euro area stress shocks and global risk aversion …) model with financial variables. We find that the effects of euro area stress shocks are significant not only for the euro … area but also for the rest of the world. Notably, an increase in euro area stress entails a slowdown of economic activity …