One of the greatest events in financial history will occur in 1999: the birth of the euro and the emergence of a unified European capital market. This is the first academic text to consider the medium term impact of a single currency on these markets. It tackles several key questions: Once the...

The objective of this paper is to develop an empirical methodology to assess the relationship between the market value and the asset-liability structure of banks. A simple bank valuation model is suggested and empirically tested on a sample of French banks. The paper attempts to evaluate the...