The harmonisation of fiscal and economic policy within the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had a considerable impact on the economies of member countries in the past decade. In particular, several studies indicate that the proceeding economic integration among euro area countries has important...

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...

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...

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,...

This study on "Services of general Interest in the Internal Market" was commissioned by the European Parliament with the aim of preparing background material and advising Members of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection on legal and economic issues...