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The integration of financial markets in Europe was seen as boosting economic catch-up in the periphery of the euro area and the EU, as well as in neighbouring economies. 

But the results have been mixed, and financial integration in Europe has now gone into reverse. What are the lessons for the EU and for emerging market economies in Europe?

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Max Watson is a Visiting Fellow at the European Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he is Director of the Political Economy of Financial Markets programme, and co-ordinates political economy work on South East Europe. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Trustee of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society. Until December 2011 he was a Director of the Central Bank of Ireland. During 2003-2007, he was adviser to the Director General of Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission. Previously he was at the IMF, where he was head of the International Capital Markets Division, a mission chief to countries in Eastern Europe and the euro area, and subsequently a Deputy Director of the Fund. 

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