This paper provides a quantitative assessment of whether or not the financial structures of Europe have converged in the wake of the institution of the Economic and Monetary Union and of the euro area. Starting with a broad selection of financial indicators, multidimensional data analysis...

This paper focuses on the impact of EU structural funds (SFs) on the GDP per capita of 183 European NUTS2 regions from 1990 to 2016. To allow for the endogeneity of funds allocation to regions, we estimate a bivariate structural panel VAR model, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity through a...