This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...

This Webside contains all editions of the scoreboard and related documents from 1997 on usually in English, the more recent editions are written in 11 european languages.

This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...

Multilateral trade negotiations limited to agriculture started again in March 2000. Set out in Article 20 of the Agreement on Agriculture, they are among the WTOs built-in agenda commitments which Member countries entered into when signing the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round...

Der vorliegende Aktionsplan ist der Schlüssel zur vollständigen Erschließung des Binnenmarktpotentials. Er soll die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und die Fähigkeit der Unternehmen zur Arbeitsplatzschaffung verbessern. Der Plan ist ein ausgewogenes und einheitliches Konzept, mit dem versucht wird,...