autarchic (i.e. fundamental) FX returns. The model is calibrated and tested on the Czech koruna/euro exchange rate in a setting … with seven Czech and euro area asset returns. …

have posted higher average growth and wider output fluctuations than the euro area and other EU countries. Second, a set of … different methodologies suggests that business cycles of accession countries have been less synchronised with the euro area than … than the euro area "peripherals" (Greece, Portugal and Ireland). Moreover, synchrony differed across countries. Some …

Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the … process towards higher integration has been primarily a phenomenon of equity markets in the euro area and the United States. …

We examine the euro area monetary policy transmission process using post-1999 data, with two main questions in mind …

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration … of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure … with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and comprehensive financial account data, we also describe how the euro …

edition of the publication u0093Bond markets and long-term interest rates in non-euro area Member States of the European Union … this third edition has been extended to include all thirteen non-euro area EU member states and two accession countries …