This paper evaluates and compares the dynamics of the financial integration process as described by different empirical approaches. To this end, a wide range of methods accounting for several dimensions of integration and a novel evaluation scheme – based on the positive association between...

This paper compares the dynamics of the financial integration process as described by different empirical approaches. To this end, a wide range of measures accounting for several dimensions of integration is employed. In addition, we evaluate the performance of each measure by relying on an...