This paper empirically investigates whether the Austrian EU membership in 1995 resulted in more financial integration with Germany. A method recently developed in the literature that is robust to non-normality and timevarying volatility is used. It is found that EU membership has not resulted in...

The current economic policy discussion on financial integration in the European Union concentrates on cross-border mergers. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical model where banks acquire either hard or soft information on borrowing firms and predict that the closer firms...

The diffusion of renewable electricity generating technologies is widely considered as crucial for establishing a sustainable energy system in the future. However, the required transition is unlikely to be achieved by market forces alone. For this reason, many countries implement various policy...