From individual investors to corporations and financial firms, derivatives have been used to hedge against, or speculation, changes in prices, rates, indexes, potential defaults on debts. Without any oversight, derivatives market and especially OTC derivatives rapidly became out of control...

World economic crisis affects both financial markets from România, and its macroeconomic perspective, but the analists consider that 2010 will be characterized through substantial reduction of the economical growth and financial markets waisting. Throughout out this paper we intend to...

The performance of the Romanian banking industry represents a true picture of the macro-economic climate, and at the same time it sets the position of the Romanian banking system in the context of current European financial trends. This paper aims at presenting the trajectory of Romanian banks...

The paper makes an analysis of the relation between International Monetary Fund and Romania during the financial crisis started in 2007 and the effects and the results of the economic and fiscal policy in Romania due to the involvment of the IMF and the internal political decision.

Romanian public administration reform is one of the main challenges Romania faces today. The development of the public services is one of the main goals of the administrative reform. This article contains information about the efforts that Romania made in the process for reform through long term...

The financial crisis was the negative, cumulative effect of several interconnected factors, of economic, financial and institutional nature. Interdependence of economies and global financial systems have led to the chaing propagation of the crisis effects, due to the globalization of the...

A milestone for any private company is the issuance of publicly traded stocks. While the motivations and mechanism of the initial public offer are straightforward, the dynamics of the IPO activity is quite complex. Both the number of initial public offerings and the total capital raised in these...

Recent monetary and fiscal policy measures in response to the macroeconomic developments in the New Member States, in the context of the international financial and economic crisis during the years 2008 and 2009 which prolonged further in 2010 were characterized by heterogeneity and asymmetries....

Since 2008, the G20, the US and the EU have taken important steps to safeguard financial stability and reshape the global financial system. Some arrangements are being put in place at the national, regional and international level. The regulatory framework includes now OTC derivatives, hedge...

The regulation and oversight of the financial markets is made necessary by both their complexity and the imperfect real economies in which they play a lead role. The paper makes an analysis of the evolution of the regulation and deregulation of the financial markets.