This paper focuses on the impact of the euro on the degree of business cycle synchronisation between nineteen advanced … impact of the euro on the synchronicity and the relative amplitude of business cycles separately. We find that although the … introduction of the euro has raised the likelihood of business cycle synchronicity, it has not affected the relative amplitude of …

The paper studies the structural convergence of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) with the Euro area … the Euro area in the last decade, namely Latvia, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Romania remains by far the country with the …

. Using a Eurozone case study, the article discusses the nexus between competitiveness and the trade balance. Secondly, the …

In the wake of monetary unification euro area bond and equitymarkets have become increasingly integrated. As an … of euro area instead of outside which we refer to as ``euro bias." First, this paper explains the euro portfolio bias … with the decline primary market transaction costs(gross spread) and lower sovereign risk among euro members. Second and …

Accession into Euro Area for Eastern European Countries became a compulsory and a very demanding step. These new …