Recent legislative developments in the field of payment services in the European Union aim at building a uniform European payments market. The creation of an internal market for payments has been the result of both industry self-regulation and public regulation. The Payment Services Directive...

This paper sets out to disprove the German philosopher Hegel's dictum about people learning nothing from history, by looking at the lessons to be learned for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) from the European Union's experience of regional integration. Since its foundation in...

The aim of this study is to assess the robustness of a full-fledged, integrated Economic and Monetary Union, under the hypothesis of a foreseeable crisis scenario. An empirical econometric model is designed, which captures from a behavioural perspective the relationship between the...