This paper studies the impact of EMU on portfolio diversification opportunities.

This paper identifies low frequency movements in the time series of return dispersions suggestive of cycles and long swings in return correlations.

This paper reassesses, at the light of economic and financial theory, the well-documented recent evolution of the euro area public debt and equity markets.

This paper anwers the question if the euro and accompanying measures of financial integration had a discernable impact on the degree of diversification of European investors?

We are interested in the macroeconomic implications of the separation of ownership andcontrol. An alternative decentralized interpretation of the stochastic growth model isproposed, one where shareholders hire a self-interested manager who is in charge of thefirm's hiring and investment...