This paper presents a European Index of Regional Institutional Integration (EURII), which maps developments in European integration from 1958 to 2014 on the basis of a monthly dataset. EURII captures what we call: (i) the “Common Market Era”, which lasted from 1958 until 1993; and (ii) the first...

Estimating the currency union effect on trade has been a contentious topic, with a wide range of estimates on the true size of gains. One fundamental issue underlying many estimates is the lack of a accurate control group against which to compare outcomes, making it hard to understand the degree...

This book is a collection of the proceedings of the ECB Legal Conference "From Monetary Union to Banking Union, on the way to Capital Markets Union: new opportunities for European integration", hosted by the European Central Bank on 1 and 2 September 2015. One of the main objectives of this...