The euro was launched, on 1 January 1999, as a common currency for members of the European Union that complied with the … impact of the euro on the degree of market integration by looking at the comovement of the European equity markets and a … sample of OECD equity markets. Weekly stock market indices for the period covering seven years before the euro and seven …

The shift of perspective from a national basis to a Euro area basis, inevitably induced by EMU, has led member … countries to a parallel shift from equity home bias to equity Euro bias. We interpret this evidence by means of a standard mean …