The article addresses recent trends in the financing costs of various public and private sectors in the euro area and Belgium. It pays particular attention to the monetary policy transmission process via the interest rate channel during the crisis and notably examines the extent to which the...

The article examines developments in euro area cross-border capital flows, together with benchmark rates and bank lending rates, and shows that the process of financial integration among euro area countries over the first years of the monetary union went temporarily into reverse, starting in...