"During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the divisions between nation-states, focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite...

Applying a t-DCC-GARCH model to daily spread data, four phases of interaction in euro area sovereign bond markets are identified between January 2008 and June 2013. The initial period (January-October 2008) is followed by a general rise in pairwise correlation values between November 2008 and...

The relative importance of different retail payment media varies across countries. There are, however, some trends in the data that are evident pan-nationally: cash seems to be playing a lesser role in payment activity; among non-cash forms of payment, there has been a substitution away from...