We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We...

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We...

In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based on data from the Ex-Post Evaluation 1994-99, this paper...