1) The Adoption of the Euro by New Member States: Challenges and Vulnerabilities by Michael C. Bonello 2) The Economics of Offshore Financial Services and the Choice of Tax, Currency, and Exchange-Rate Regimes by George M. von Furstenberg 3) Promoting Integration of European Retail Payment...

In this paper, we present a set of specific measures to quantify the state and evolution of financial integration in the euro area. Five key markets are considered, namely the money, corporate bond, government bond, credit and equity markets. Building upon the law of one price, we developed two...