Fifteen years ago it counted as received wisdom that accession to the European Union implies arrival to a safe haven concluding the ups and downs of post-communist transformation. Quantitative assessment (Papi et al. in JAMA 60(2): 271-290, 2018) indicates a considerable degree of convergence,...

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the relationships between world stock market indices. Classical minimum spanning tree approach is used, supported by edge stability analysis via bootstrap technique. Centrality measures analysis is applied for finding hubs in the network. Stock...

The relationship between domestic saving and investment provides important insights for the integration of national financial markets into the world capital market. In case of perfect financial integration, it is generally assumed that there should be no close relationship between national...

The establishment of the banking union was a crucial step for European integration and for the Economic and Monetary Union. Together with stronger capital and liquidity requirements under the European single rulebook, the introduction of the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Single Resolution...