The EBA has assessed confidentiality regimes of third countries with respect to Article 116(6) CRD. The results were published in a first set of Recommendations on 1 April 2015. The assessments will be an ongoing process and the EBA has since then completed the assessment of a further...

This paper examine differences between risk-neutral and objective probability densities of future interest rates. The identification and quantification of these differences are important when risk-neutral densities (RNDs), such as option-implied RNDs, are used as indicators of actual beliefs of...

Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. First, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel (Rogoff 1996, Goldberg and Knetter 1997). Second, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among...