The issue of financial instability has been intensely debated over the past few decades both within the academia and by the economy decision-makers. The complexity of the concept and the range of meanings hinder the development of a general, unanimously accepted definition. However, the...

After more than five decades since the problem of the European monetary integration has been introduced into the arena of the politic debates and after almost two decades of changes towards a viable functioning of the Euro Area, it is interesting to make a review of this process and of its main...

The global financial crisis created new challenges for the states that have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007, but that are not yet members of the Euro zone; the maintenance of the convergence indicators below the reference values is a real challenge for the new EU member states. This...

The global financial crisis transmitted several factors which have aggravated the economic situation of the new members of the European Union on the background of their strong financial and trading relations with the developed European countries. This article is a brief presentation of some...

Optimizarea unei zone monetare, în sensul unei funcţionări viabile pe termen lung, se fundamentează pe capacitatea acesteia de a gestiona şocurile asimetrice care tind să se propage în interior. Un şoc macroeconomic comun propagat în cadrul tuturor subsistemelor poate fi asimetric în...

Over the time, the Euro area proved to be an experimental region, an analytical model for the process of monetary integration, therefore a support for the development of the concept of optimum currency area. The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2007 and which changed the...

The project goal is to realize a pragmatic and analytical study on the new economic governance regarding the adoption of the single currency by the new member states of the European Union, while identifying the trends of major interest for Romania within the new post-crisis context. On these...

This article is a result of the usual debates taking place within our research centre, being conducted by the research team that has been dealing for several years with the adoption of the euro by the new member states of the European Union (EU). The recent financial crisis brought in the middle...

The paper presents briefly the evolution of inflation over the period August 2008 - November 2010 for the new member states (NMS) of the EU, which are on the waiting list to adopt the Euro (in a random order, they are Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland and...

Deşi se utilizează frecvent, competitivitatea naţională este încă o noţiune ambiguă, în sensul că nu există nici o definiţie unanim acceptată în literatura de specialitate, ci numeroase abordări. În acest articol vom încerca să contribuim la clarificarea conceptului de...