Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare studiază unele schimbări importante intervenite în politica monetară începând cu sfârşitul secolului trecut. Sunt abordate principalele procese care au cauzat aceste schimbări: dezvoltarea inovaţiilor financiare, liberalizarea pieţelor financiare,...

Romanian Abstract: Această lucrare abordează câteva din provocările recente ale ţintirii inflaţiei. Circumstanţele sunt diferite pentru ţările în curs de dezvoltare faţă de cele dezvoltate. În multe dintre ţările în curs de dezvoltare băncile centrale au adoptat ţintirea...

Toate ţările membre ale Uniunii Europene trebuie să asigure armonizarea instrumentelor de politică monetară utilizate cu cele ale Băncii Centrale Europene. Analizând comparativ instrumentele de politică monetară ale Băncii Naţionale a Românei şi pe cele ale Băncii Centrale...

The monetary policy decision, as any other decision, is the product of a procedure assembling a lot of primary information, but also what type of other ingredients contribute finally to a certain monetary policy decision.

Any decision is eventually the product of a procedure which requires assembling a multitude of primary information, passed through reiterative processes both of organisation and of analysis. The procedures also regard “pushing” these transformed/processed towards preparatory levels only to...

The paper analyses the swift growth of bank loans granted to the nongovernmental sector with a special attention on the case of Romania, concluding that it creates several perils for the macroeconomic and financial stability.

The construction of an Aggregate Financial Stability Index represents one of the methods used for assessing the level and dynamics of financial sector stability.

Bank failure is the result of a defective management in banking leading the bank to a stage of bankruptcy, which means that the insolvent bank is going to be closed by the banking authority. In general, the banking sector is viewed as more vulnerable to contagion than other industries since...

During last decades the interest to financial stability and, as a result, to regulatory and supervisory issues has markedly increased in academic and policy circles. Representative research has been done since that time referring to both financial and banking regulation, however only a few...

The world financial market is an extremely complex system that involves many different participants from local banks to the central bank of each nation and the investors. Due to its importance on the global economy and our everyday lives it is vital that it is functioning properly....