We explore deviations from short-run purchasing power parity across European cities, attempting to move beyond a "first generation" of papers that document very large border effects. We document two very distinct types of border effects embedded in relative prices. The first is a "real barriers...

This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate conditional correlations between European bank stock indices. These correlations are used as an indication for the interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and...