Search results for " Financial Integration"
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The determinants of increasing equity market comovement: economic or financial integration?
2010
This paper investigates to what extent the substantial increase in exposures of local European equity market returns to global shocks is mainly due to a convergence in cash flows (“economic integration”), to a convergence in discount rates (“financial integration”), or to both. We find that this increased exposure is nearly entirely due to increasing discount-rate betas. This finding is robust to alternative ways of calculating discount-rate and cash-flow shocks.
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Financial Integration: a first assessment for selected countries
2009
In this paper, we try to provide a first assessment on the extent of financial integration and convergence between selected European and Southern Mediterranean countries involved in the Barcelona process. In particular, we implement a simple test of capital mobility based on the verification of the international real interest parity hypothesis between domestic rates against the real rate of Germany, used as the European reference country, and against the real rate of the US. We repeat the test before and after the introduction of the Euro, and then measure the speed of real interest rate convergence.
L’evoluzione del sistema dei pagamenti in Italia: configurazioni strutturali e profili di integrazione finanziaria
2019
Un corretto ed ordinato sistema dei pagamenti costituisce condizione essenziale per la stabilità e l’efficienza del sistema finanziario, per il buon funzionamento dei mercati e per la conduzione della politica monetaria. L’intero sistema dei pagamenti italiano è evoluto in direzione di più elevati livelli di efficienza ed efficacia, in un contesto di progressiva armonizzazione e cooperazione sovranazionale, quale condizione per lo sviluppo di un sistema integrato dei pagamenti europeo; il presente articolo pertanto delinea, seppure a grandi linee, il quadro evolutivo del sistema dei pagamenti nazionale, avuto riguardo agli aspetti istituzionali, economico-finanziari e regolamentari. This pa…
Financial Fragmentation and Economic Growth in Europe
2015
Using industry data from Eurostat and applying the Rajan-Zingales methodology, we investigate the real growth effects of banking sector integration in the European Union. Our sample stretches from 2000 until 2012 and includes the phase of rapid financial integration before the global financial crisis as well as the following phase of financial fragmentation and bank deleveraging. We find evidence that banking sector integration had a more than four times stronger growth effect during the crisis than in normal times. Growth effects are also stronger in times of domestic bank deleveraging. We conclude that concerns of European policy makers about fragmentation in the European banking sector a…