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This paper investigates the euro area bias—a stronger preference for euro area securities in the cross‐border portfolio of euro area residents with respect to the prediction of an international finance gravity model. Compared with previous studies, we disentangle different partitions of the euro area and, crucially, isolate euro area financial centres, finding some novel results. First, the euro area bias...