Instabilitatea financiara, ciclurile si rolul institutiilor

In this study I review the main scientific contributions of Minsky and other scholars to the financial instability and crisis issues, and the role of institutions in modeling the medium and long business and financial waves. The topics developed in this paper are the following: the relationships between financial instability, business and financial crisis and institutions; the thwarting of the explosive instability by the specific institutions' actions and regulations; the impact of the institutional changes on the business and financial cycles; the empiric approach to the business and financial cycles and their synchronization in the Central and Eastern Europe countries / members of the EU, taking into account the main characteristics of the changes in these countries' institutions.