This paper assesses the level of readiness of Romania to adopt euro, based on nominal and real convergence criteria evaluation. We used the optimal currency area criteria in order to assess the real convergence process in Romania. The main conclusion of the paper is that more progress is...

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.

Monetary policy should be guided by macroeconomic models with limited nominal rigidity – ‘New Classical’ or even for some issues just plain Classical (i.e. with no nominal rigidity at all) models are perfectly adequate for understanding various aspects of the economy that have previously...

The use of the software package is today indispensable for modeling of financial decisions. Business organizations will invariably make greater demands of the software than individual users. Excel is an option along with other software applications tailored to the market, and bespoke (in-house)...

Romanian Abstract: Lucrarea prezintă utilizarea metodelor Jacobi şi Seidel Gauss în rezolvarea sistemelor liniare cu aplicaţii în economie. Aceşti doi algoritmi clasici sunt utilizaţi pentru analiza raportului dintre cerere şi ofertă. Se face astfel o analiză a evoluţiei preţului...

Romanian Abstract: Sistemele liniare sunt utile în analiza situaţiilor în care datele cantitative este necunoscute sau trebuie să fie măsurate şi informaţiile calitative sunt cunoscute; astfel de situaţii apar frecvent în discipline precum economia, biologia, etc. Dezvoltarea de noi...

The paper aims to evaluate the degree of business cycle synchronization and similarity of economic structures between Romania and the euro zone from the perspective of European Monetary Union (EMU) integration. Despite the fact that the euro adoption can generate benefits for the Romanian...