, we show that the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) eased the access to the equity market and, to a larger extent …, the bond market; thereby, enhancing regional financial integration in the euro area. Beside the effect of the EMU, the …

investors preferred portfolio assets of countries where the central bank gave relative importance to money. As for EMU, once … among euro area countries have increased due to the catalyst effect of EMU. Country's shares in the world market portfolio …, home bias, initial degree of misallocation across countries, past returns, diversification benefits and EMU can explain 35 …

change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steadystate inflation and inflation … uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly owing to …