The basic question I will try to explore is whether the present financial crisis has changed the assessment of the effects of euro adoption by the new member countries (NMC) which are still outside EMU.

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

The paper “Corporate governance in the 2011 of financial crisis: evidence from financial institutions worldwide” examines the role of corporate governance in the financial crisis. A large number of financial institutions have collapsed or were bailed out by governments worldwide since the...

The financial crisis gave an impetus to finding “weaknesses” in financial institutions. One such tool is the stress-testing. This method is intended to identify through modeling “hypothetical” or “historical” scenarios, the most losses, in the execution of a script. In the simulation...

Nothing is more natural inside the evolution of a living system than the crisis itself, the only thing that distinguishes systems from each other is represented by how crises are solved and future developments. The biggest mistake would be to think that there are companies that can develop...

The recent financial crisis and all unusual monetary and fiscal policy reactions have stressed the importance to be given to understand macroeconomic consequences of policy interventions and their interactions. This profound crisis has led to both nonstandard policy actions of various...